Maeve Binchy Quotes

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

Maeve Binchy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveRomanticMindsHeroesOwn

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

Jim Bakker

SonWallsMeWorldPrisonWant

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

John B. S. Haldane

UniverseMy OwnOwnSuspicionOnly

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

Jeff Bridges

LoveMarriageComedyTragedyStuff

People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.

Tony Parsons

I AmPeopleNiceAlwaysGuyAm

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Tom Stoppard

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Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, 'Don't go there, that's not allowed.'

Monica Ali

CreativeCuriousWritingYouPlay

I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.

Lucinda Williams

PeopleMeWritingFreeProblemKnow

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'

Jay Leno

GirlYouYesterdayMcDonaldSaid

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

Dirk Benedict

PeopleWishFindTrueActorI Wish

The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.

David Souter

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My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.

Bob Saget

ConfidenceGenuineBeingBetween

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