Maeve Binchy Quotes

• 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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• I’ve been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

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• I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

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• I don’t have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

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• 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.

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• All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

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• An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

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• Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

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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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• 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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• We’re nothing if we’re not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

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• I’m an escapist kind of writer.

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• I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I’m not insane – I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

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Birth:	28th May, 1940
Death:	30th July, 2012
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Writer

About

Maeve Binchy Snell was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker best known for her humorous take on small-town life in Ireland, her descriptive characters, her interest in human nature, and her often clever surprise endings. Her novels, which were translated into 37 languages, sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and her death, announced by Vincent Browne on Irish television late on 30 July 2012, was mourned as the passing of Ireland's best-loved and most recognisable writer.

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