39 Quotes by Beryl Bainbridge

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior,

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

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

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.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

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