Helen Hodgman Professions : Novelist Born : April 27, 1945 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Helen Hodgman Off with the old and on with the new and never a second's thought between. Helen Hodgman She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation, she'd been told. They took half your stomach out and fitted you up with a plastic bag. Better a semicolon than a full stop, some might say. Helen Hodgman bags cancer growth Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time. Helen Hodgman too-short home writing Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors