Nina Bawden Quotes

Nina Bawden — British Writer born on January 19, 1925, died on August 22, 2012

Nina Bawden CBE FRSL JP was an English novelist and children's writer. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. She is one of a select group to have both served as a Booker judge and made the shortlist as an author... (wikipedia)

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

Nina Bawden Quotes

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