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" I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped. "
Jane Gardam
No Fear
Started
Fear
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" Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder. "
Jane Gardam
Short
Spiritual
Story
" If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters. "
Jane Gardam
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Believe
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" In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.' "
Jane Gardam
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Style
Own
" I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy. "
Jane Gardam
Live
Happy
Child
" English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared. "
Jane Gardam
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" For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected. "
Jane Gardam
Writing
Law
Husband
" I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement. "
Jane Gardam
Most
Dangerous
Young
" I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually. "
Jane Gardam
Confused
Lot
Me
" The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others. "
Jane Gardam
Best
Never
Daughter
" Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I've never stopped. "
Jane Gardam
Morning
Wife
School
" I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool. "
Jane Gardam
Along
Own
Way
" I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone! "
Jane Gardam
Same
Book
Write
" I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book. "
Jane Gardam
I Think
Hate
Book
" Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that. "
Jane Gardam
Want
She
Years
" I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do. "
Jane Gardam
Knew
Just
Only
" While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed. "
Jane Gardam
New
Writing
Anything
" I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think. "
Jane Gardam
Style
Think
Character
" I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women. "
Jane Gardam
Some
Happens
Children