Sue Townsend Quotes

I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

Rosie Germaine Mole.

I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

said he 'would rather go without'.

Just measured my thing. It has grown one centimetre. I might be needing it soon.

She was alone.
She missed him immediately.

Nothing was true for long. In time, everything was deconstructed.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason.

Measured my 'thing'. It was eleven centimetres.

I always knew I had no small talk, and now I know I've got no big talk either.

I have a problem. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever.

In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.

I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane ...

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

Live with all of your senses.

I used to think I had nice arms, but I don't even think that anymore.

I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.

My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.

I used to be the sort of boy who had sand kicked in his face, now I'm the sort of boy who watches somebody else have it kicked in their face

I have a slight addiction to Diet Coke, and, of course, I absolutely shouldn't touch it because it makes the kidneys work really hard.

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

we all need to be loved, and we all need to love.

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

I am the world's worst diabetic.

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

I couldn't think of anything to say so I kept quiet. I still can't think of anything to say so I am going to sleep.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.

You should only speak when you have something worth saying.

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards.

Sex with the gorilla went on a bit, but once he'd stumbled over my clitoris we both had good times.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

She had always been comforted by confectionery

My cream and black Aga. It is the heart of the house, and people congregate around it.

Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle.

Adrian Mole's diary
Easter
Poor Jesus, it must have been dead awful for him. I wouldn't have the guts to do it myself.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

What's the most important quality a person could have, something that would benefit us all?

My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.

Alexander assured her, 'Eva, none of us know our children. Because they are not us.

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave ... and beyond!

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.

Since I learned to read I've used them as a kind of anaesthetic.

I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.