Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

Bugger the writing, I’d have given anything to have had a long-lasting relationship.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around.

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

It’s all changed now, which is why it mattered to those young men from Liverpool that they should be there to support their team.What other group is going to troop their colours for them, present them with scarves and emblems?

I haven’t the humility to find anything beneath me.

We are essentially fragile.We don’t have to wait for the sword or some other equally sensational weapon to strike us down… There are so many ways of us dying it’s astonishing any of us choose old age.

Being constantly with 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.

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