Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge was an English writer from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as "a national treasure". In 2008, The Times named Bainbridge on their list of "The 10 greatest British writers since 1945". Wikipedia

✵ 21. November 1932 – 2. July 2010

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Injury Time

Injury Time

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Famous Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”

Beryl Bainbridge

“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”

Beryl Bainbridge

The New York Times, March 1, 1981. http://partners.nytimes.com/books/98/11/29/specials/bainbridge-tenth.html

“What we remember is probably fiction anyway.”

Beryl Bainbridge

“Being constantly with the children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.”

Beryl Bainbridge book Injury Time

Injury Time (London: Abacus, [1977] 2003) ch. 4, pp. 41-42.

“I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everyone speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.”

Beryl Bainbridge

James Vinson & D. L. Kirkpatrick (eds.), Contemporary Novelists, 2nd edition, (London: St. James Press, 1976). http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4121/Bainbridge-Beryl-Margaret-Beryl-Bainbridge-comments.html

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