English - Novelist | April 2, 1946 - April 10, 2014
I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.
Sue Townsend
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I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'
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We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.
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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.
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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.
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I am the world's worst diabetic.
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Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.
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I took my sight and mobility for granted.
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I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.
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Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.
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When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards.
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I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!
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