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Wendy Cope
English
Poet
Born:
Jul 21
,
1945
Funny
Going
Life
Think
Writing
You
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I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
Wendy Cope
Life
Good
Happy
Women
Better
Happy Life
Think
Plots
Writers
Arises
Supply
Over
Particularly
Question
Tragic
Women Writers
Whether
Which
Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
Wendy Cope
Christmas
Peace
Men
Earth
Goodwill
Make
Cup
Up
Bloody
Again
Loving
Them
Us
Washing
Let Us
Here
Raise
Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
Wendy Cope
You
Wait
Men
Three
Year
Others
Approaches
About
About A Year
Soon
Like
Bloody
Stop
Buses
Your
Appear
Two
I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
Wendy Cope
More
Never
Been
Than
Famous
Suddenly
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
Wendy Cope
You
Light
Seen
Poet
Sense
Meet
Humour
Out
Some
Poems
Because
Often
Afraid
Being
Interesting
Them
Interesting Thing
Who
Keep
Thing
In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
Wendy Cope
Time
Confidence
Writing
Long
Thinking
Books
Case
Between
Got
Lot
Quite
Lack
Quite A Lot
Gaps
Start
I like a quiet life.
Wendy Cope
Life
Quiet Life
Like
Quiet
There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
Wendy Cope
Funny
Family
Values
Think
Humour
Everyone
Laugh
Some
Poems
Make
Lot
Going
Quite
Quite A Lot
Family Values
Want
Them
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