Maeve Binchy Quotes
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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.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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Any one could write a book," said the taxi driver. " Yes, they could, but they DON'T," said Maeve Binchy
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In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
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I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.
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Do you know the land where the lemon-trees blossom;where the golden oranges glow in the dark foliage'.
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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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.'
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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.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine ... and curry ... and cheeses.
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You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.
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It was true what they had been saying: if people remember you, then you're not dead. It was very comforting.
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Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.
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Who knows what light housework means? One nun's light could be another nun's penal servitude.
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God, Benny, don't blow your nose like that in the church. You'd lift half the congregation out of their seats," Patsy warned.
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
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She soon called a halt to the work. Judy's great success was that she stopped her helpers before they got tired.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
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Her life was like her house - a colorful fantasy where anything was possible if you wanted it badly enough.
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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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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.
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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
— Maeve Binchy
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.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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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. — Maeve Binchy
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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he must not know how much power he had to move her.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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No point in destroying Wednesday thinking about Friday. This one-day-at-a-time thing really worked. Friday
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You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.
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I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
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I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
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To heal would be to open the wound,examine it and forgive
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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?
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home early, Liam?
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I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
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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.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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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.
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bowls of cornflakes,
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