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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.


Maeve Binchy


#ever #feel #home #i #people

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


#always #any #fancy #life #phrases

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.


Maeve Binchy


#called #cared #children #day #did

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


#grown-up #i #liking #parents #peaceful

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


Maeve Binchy


#hero #just #look #own #story

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.


Robert A. Heinlein


#right #socially #soon #too #unacceptable

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


#alive #became #brilliant #fed #great

Finally, I found a program that's put my troubles behind me.


Maurice Gibb


#finally #found #i #me #program

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.


Maeve Binchy


#buy #great #i #i am #i do

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.


Maeve Binchy


#buy #great #i #i am #insane






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