"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."

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Source : 1976 In D L Kirkpatrick (ed) Contemporary Novelists.

Beryl Bainbridge

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Talking Quotes

“I firmly believe that digitalization has only just begun in China. In addition to the taxi, transport, shopping and hotel businesses, many other industries will follow: education, health care, administration, even the legal branch - everything, really. There is still a lot of opportunity in China for the inventive and ambitious ones.”
“If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.”
“Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.”
“My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?”
“The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging.”
“Kindness and patience were always called for.”
“Avoid being a 'groan' up.”
“I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.”

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