Nina Bawden Quotes

• 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.

  Nina Bawden

  Niños, Libro, Escritura

  47 Copiar cita

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

  Nina Bawden

  Survivor, Victim, Angry

  Nina Bawden (2011). “Dear Austen”, p.19, Hachette UK

  28 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Nina Bawden

  Liars, People, Tragedy

  Nina Bawden (2011). “In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography”, p.99, Hachette UK

  17 Copiar cita

• All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

  Nina Bawden

  Writing, Thieves, Tools

  10 Copiar cita

• One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

  Nina Bawden

  Writing, Age, Life Is

  Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

  8 Copiar cita

• 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

  Pensamiento, Gente, Camino

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

  4 Copiar cita

• I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we didn't seem to have any choice. We were very happy for nearly 50 years and would still be together if it wasn't for the bloody railways.

  Nina Bawden

  Husband, Years, People

  Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

  7 Copiar cita

• I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.

  Nina Bawden

  Children, Book, Ideas

  4 Copiar cita

• Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

  Nina Bawden

  Children, Stronger, Adults

  Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

  4 Copiar cita

• A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.

  Nina Bawden

  Writing, May, Close Friends

  Nina Bawden (2011). “In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography”, p.99, Hachette UK

  8 Copiar cita

• I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.

  Nina Bawden

  Country, Mother, War

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

  4 Copiar cita

• If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.

  Nina Bawden

  People, Safety, Would Be

  5 Copiar cita

• I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.

  Nina Bawden

  Two, Raf, Cadets

  5 Copiar cita

• I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

  Nina Bawden

  Husband, Shoes, Track

  "Dear Austen". Book by Nina Bawden, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

  4 Copiar cita

• I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

  Nina Bawden

  Jobs, War, Oxford

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

  4 Copiar cita

• Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.

  Nina Bawden

  Niños, Libro, Escritura

  6 Copiar cita

• People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

  Nina Bawden

  Pensamiento, Gente, Importante

  Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

  4 Copiar cita

• Margaret Thatcher estaba en mi curso, y en la foto de nuestro primer año de universidad aparecemos codo con codo en la última fila. Las dos éramos alumnas de primaria con becas estatales.

  Nina Bawden

  Chica, Escuela, Universidad

  4 Copiar cita

• I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

  Nina Bawden

  Mother, Made Up Stories, Serial Killer

  Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

  4 Copiar cita

• I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

  Nina Bawden

  Differences, Interesting, Feelings

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

  4 Copiar cita

• La vida de las personas está en manos de los ferrocarriles cuando suben a un tren. Los ferrocarriles deberían recordarlo.

  Nina Bawden

  People, Care, Remember

  6 Copiar cita

• I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

  Nina Bawden

  Country, Hate, Living On

  4 Copiar cita

• But I don't write about sex for today's teenagers. Or Doc Martens boots either. I'm more interested in exploring how exactly the world is run, which doesn't really change that much from one generation to another.

  Nina Bawden

  Running, Sex, Teenager

  4 Copiar cita

• Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.

  Nina Bawden

  Children, Confused, Thinking

  4 Copiar cita

• I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.

  Nina Bawden

  Mother, School, Oxford

  7 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

Michelle Magorian

Philippa Pearce

Joan Aiken

Anne Fine

David Almond

Helen Cresswell

J. G. Farrell

Shirley Hazzard