Maeve Binchy Quotes

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.

Maeve Binchy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 28, 1939 - June 30, 2012

Topics

HomeGreatTimeParentsThought

You can't simplify my taste and say, 'Parker likes big wines,' because it's just not true.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

YouSayTrueTasteSimplifyBig

I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I'm always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren't always in a script.

Johnny Crawford

LoveFatherTalentThinkingAlways

Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.

Amy Hempel

MeInterestingSomeoneYouWant

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

Steven Pinker

PossibilitiesViolenceInequality

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Janis Joplin

ThoughtArtistWantAlwaysWhatever

Here's a very simple, common sense idea - if you practice something more, you get better at it; if you can't complete everything you need to do, take more time.

Chris Gabrieli

TimeSimplePracticeBetterYou

Listen, don't get my Jersey pride going. We are the most densely-populated state in America 'cause some many people who know the secret want to live there.

Cory Booker

LivePeoplePrideAmericaKnowWant

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

Craig Bruce

LiberalismConservatismDividends

I'm not totally innocent, and I do date. But as a young woman, I also demand respect.

Ciara

RespectWomanInnocentYoungDate

I'm not a practising Muslim.

Art Malik

MuslimPractising

It's nice to see how much the mainstream fashion community has been so accepting of it. It's very exciting to see that folks finally want to make plus-size mainstream.

Ashley Nell Tipton

CommunityFashionNiceWantSee

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

William Wilberforce

PurposeNothingMy OwnFirstOwn

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