Maeve Binchy Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

  Maeve Binchy

  Book, Fall, People

• If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.

  Maeve Binchy

  Moving, Book, Given

• The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.

  Maeve Binchy

  Book, Writing, Long

• When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.

  Maeve Binchy

  Book, Writing, Exercise

• 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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