Beryl Bainbridge

“One's life is a journey, and every journey has an end.”

“The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”

“If you're a writer, you have to be interested in people.”

“One of the great things about being a writer is that you can get things out of your system.”

“I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.”

“What is the point of going abroad if you are just another tourist?”

“Writing is a way of getting revenge.”

“I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm a good storyteller.”

“She was a woman who was used to dealing with men, and she knew how to get her own way.”

“I'm not a feminist, but I think it's a very good thing that women have been admitted to the human race.”

“The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”

“I think there are two ways of being a writer: some people write from the head, and some people write from the heart. I write from the heart.”

“It's a terrible thing to be a writer. It's a lonely life.”

“History is a bloody business.”

“I don't believe in God, but I'm very interested in him.”