"People who don’t read seem to me mysterious. I don’t know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education."
― Nina Bawden
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From Nina Bawden
- "I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right."
- "I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them."
- "Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth."