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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

#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

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

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 thing #loved #meet #more #most

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words. ↗

— Tony Blair

#dependent #those #tory #wealth #words

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out. ↗

— Larry David

#been #better #day #driving #had

Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over. ↗

— Larry David

#bad #basically #because #going #happen

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around? ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#bodies #breath #determined #life #other