Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE was an English writer from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working classes. 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 50 greatest British writers since 1945"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 November 1934
What we remember is probably fiction anyway.
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 is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.
Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.
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.
There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.
The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.
I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior,
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.
The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.
Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.