Jane Gardam - I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother ...

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I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.

Jane Gardam

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ich begann als Kind zu schreiben, sobald ich lesen konnte oder sogar schon vorher, als meine Mutter mich vor dem Schlafengehen mit Beatrix Potter las. Das Schreiben schien mir die einzig vernünftige Art zu leben und glücklich zu sein.

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