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I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books — where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers — rather less.

Nancy Spain

I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.

Nancy Spain

Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.

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Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write.

Nancy Spain

The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.

Nancy Spain

There are people whom one loves immediately and for ever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.

Nancy Spain

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

Nancy Spain

Nancy Spain

Nancy Spain

Born: September 13, 1917

Died: March 21, 1964 (aged 46)

Bio: Nancy Brooker Spain was a prominent English broadcaster and journalist. She was a columnist for the Daily Express, She magazine, and the News of the World in the 1950s and 1960s.

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