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Nina Bawden
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“All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.”
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“The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings — about themselves, their parents, their friends — and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.”
Nina Bawden, English writer
(1925 - 2012)
Full name: Nina Bawden CBE FRSL JP.