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.
Nina BawdenAll writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.
Nina BawdenI like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.
Nina BawdenThe 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