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Maeve Binchy
8 quotes
“I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.”
Maeve Binchy (1939–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare', I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning', I say I 'passed a school'. You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.”
Maeve Binchy (1939–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's like if you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.”
Maeve Binchy (1939–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(A) writer, a man I loved and he loved me and we got married and it was great and is still great. He believed I could do anything, just as my parents had believed all those years ago, and I started to write fiction and that took off fine. And he loved Ireland, and the fax was invented so we writers could live anywhere we liked, instead of living in London near publishers.”
Maeve Binchy (1939–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Suddenly they asked me, as only the French would, ‘Madame, what is your philosophy of life?’ What a cosmic question, but I had to answer, and answer quickly, because it was live. So I said, in French, ‘I think that you’ve got to play the hand that you’re dealt and stop wishing for another hand.’”
Maeve Binchy (1939–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.”
Maeve Binchy (1939–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.”
Maeve Binchy (1939–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.”
Maeve Binchy (1939–2012) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When asked in 1995 how she would like to die. guardian.co.uk