Maeve Binchy Quotes
Top 76 wise famous quotes and sayings by Maeve Binchy
Maeve Binchy Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
Any one could write a book," said the taxi driver. " Yes, they could, but they DON'T," said Maeve Binchy
In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.
Do you know the land where the lemon-trees blossom;where the golden oranges glow in the dark foliage'.
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen
Benny explained that it wasn't her sweater. It was borrowed from a fellow. She wondered why she needed to tell so much to strangers.
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine ... and curry ... and cheeses.
You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.
It was true what they had been saying: if people remember you, then you're not dead. It was very comforting.
God, Benny, don't blow your nose like that in the church. You'd lift half the congregation out of their seats," Patsy warned.
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
She soon called a halt to the work. Judy's great success was that she stopped her helpers before they got tired.
If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
Her life was like her house - a colorful fantasy where anything was possible if you wanted it badly enough.
Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.
It was quite possible that she had lost the capacity to love and care anymore and that this is how she was going to be for the rest of her life.
My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life. - Lena Gray
I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.
I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
Listen to me, Ria. It will be different when you and I have a home. It will be a real home, one that people will want to come running back to.
If you had your time all over again ... ? She was keen to know.
You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do.
You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do.
If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
No point in destroying Wednesday thinking about Friday. This one-day-at-a-time thing really worked. Friday
Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
Wasn't it hard that you did so much for children and loved them so deeply and they seemed so indifferent to you in return?
I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.