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
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.
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
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
When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.