Irish - Novelist | May 28, 1939 - June 30, 2012
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
Maeve Binchy
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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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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.
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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I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.
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