Author: Jane Gardam

Quotes

English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

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

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.

- Jane Gardam

I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.

I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.

- Jane Gardam

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

- Jane Gardam

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.

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

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