Maeve Binchy Quotes

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• I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

  Maeve Binchy

  Writing, Swans, Ugly Duckling

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• I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

  Maeve Binchy

  Character, Loss, Perhaps Love

  FaceBook post by Maeve Binchy from Feb 07, 2012

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• Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

  Maeve Binchy

  Ordinary, Looks, Knows

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• We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing in life, really. And I think we are all striving for it in different ways. I also believe very, very strongly that everybody is the hero/heroine of his/her own life. I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters

  Maeve Binchy

  Believe, Hero, Character

  FaceBook post by Maeve Binchy from Mar 24, 2012

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• The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

  Maeve Binchy

  Art, Knowing, Timing

  Maeve Binchy (1995). “Three Complete Books”, Wings

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• If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.

  Maeve Binchy

  Rejected, Ifs

  "Author Maeve Binchy dies aged 72". www.bbc.com. July 31, 2012.

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• I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

  Maeve Binchy

  Couple, Years, Get Better

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• In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.

  Maeve Binchy

  Land, Bored, Stories

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• I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.

  Maeve Binchy

  Beautiful, Thinking, Swans

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• In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!

  Maeve Binchy

  Intelligent, Stories, Wonderful

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• The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

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  Important, Stories, Realizing

  FaceBook post by Maeve Binchy from Mar 05, 2013

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• I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

  Maeve Binchy

  Thinking, Hands, Play

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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.

  Maeve Binchy

  Real, Writing, Talking

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• 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

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Hero

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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.

  Maeve Binchy

  Reading, Thinking, Parent

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

  Maeve Binchy

  Attitude, Regret, Heart

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• We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

  Maeve Binchy

  Important, Important Things, Ifs

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• Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

  Maeve Binchy

  Hero, Looks, Stories

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• I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot.

  Maeve Binchy

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Maeve Binchy (2007). “Tara Road”, p.45, Dell

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• You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

  Maeve Binchy

  Country, Book, Hero

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• I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read what I wrote the previous day I think it's fairly entertaining; other times I think it's pure rubbish. The main thing is not to take any notice, not to be elated or upset, just keep going.

  Maeve Binchy

  Morning, Writing, Thinking

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• My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!

  Maeve Binchy

  Father, Journey, Long

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• I'm an escapist kind of writer.

  Maeve Binchy

  Kind, Escapists

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• Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

  Maeve Binchy

  Skills, Mind, World

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• I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.

  Maeve Binchy

  Flower, Bird, Guilt

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