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Maeve Binchy
Irish
Novelist
Born:
May 28
,
1939
Died:
Jun 30
,
2012
Happy
Life
Me
People
Think
You
Related authors:
Elizabeth Bowen
Frank Delaney
George A. Moore
James Joyce
John Banville
Laurence Sterne
Robert Graves
Roddy Doyle
I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
Maeve Binchy
Life
Life Is Too Short
Enemy
Win
Think
Too
Would
Rather
Remain
Disagreements
Always
Friends
Than
Short
Prefer
Apologize
Even
Believed
Right
Rows
The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
Maeve Binchy
Good
Great
You
Getting Older
Black
Black And White
Become
Young
White
Older
Enraged
Mellow
Easily
See
About
Rather
More
Great Thing
Were
Than
Getting
Much
Used
Tolerant
Thing
Things
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
Happiness
Attitude
You
Happy
Yourself
Past
Own
Think
Our
Circumstances
Find
Totally
No Regrets
Cheerful
Make
Lot
Hearts
Anything
In The Past
Regrets
Your
There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.
Maeve Binchy
Life
Beautiful
Ugly
Problems
Become
Own
Books
Charge
Able
Take
She
Becomes
Does
Duck
Confident
Swan
Her
I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
Maeve Binchy
Good
Family
Age
Happy
Old
Old Age
Around
Still
Been
Friends
Very
Family And Friends
Lucky
Good Family
I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.
Maeve Binchy
Buy
You
Library
Change
Garden
Old
Plant
Bird
Will
Blessed
Clothes
Books
Out
Window
Thrift
Rather
Take
Bag
Box
Been
Friends
Than
Get
Store
Old Clothes
Them
Your
Who
Fill
Things
Bring
Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
Maeve Binchy
You
Hero
Own
Everybody
Look
Just
Story
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
Guilt
Thought
Pure
Flower
Once
Hideous
Out
Would
Hated
Never
Had
Fade
Like
Arrangement
Got
Huge
Person
Die
Expensive
Middle
Sent
Who
I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
Maeve Binchy
Pressure
Too
Vitamins
Supplements
Fair
Fair Amount
Pills
Blood
Blood Pressure
Heartbeat
Irregular
Means
Amount
Medication
I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.
Maeve Binchy
Hope
Me
Made
Think
Entirely
Because
Brave
Decisions
Next
Based
Right
If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
Maeve Binchy
You
Dance
Never
Go
Get
Either
Rejected
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
Maeve Binchy
You
Happy
Writer
Had
Unsuitable
Very
Irish
Going
Childhood
Which
Happy Childhood
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
Thought
Parents
Reading
Think
Saw
Relaxing
Liking
Because
Still
Peaceful
Grown-Up
Thing
Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.
Maeve Binchy
You
Happy
People
Miserable
Rich
Married
Married People
Wins
Absolutely
Nobody
Known
Because
Coming
Cavalry
Question
Lots
Get
Get Married
Rescue
Who
Ever
Thin
Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
Maeve Binchy
Beautiful
Women
Ugly
Become
Out
Charge
Take
Mainly
Ducks
Confident
Swans
Who
Lives
Start
I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.
Maeve Binchy
Love
Learning
Unlucky
Understanding
Own
Enough
Exams
Never
Scholar
Had
Fairly
Always
Got
Sake
Quick
Taught
Interested
Really
Lucky
As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
Maeve Binchy
Me
People
Remember
Bird
Seen
Somewhere
Else
Say
Statue
Bronze
Memorial
See
Park
Somewhere Else
Could
Name
Like
Look
Modern
Going
Maybe
Just
Where
Children
Storyteller
Little
Marble
Play
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
People
Pleased
Insane
Writer
Take
Writers
Obviously
Am
Very
Realize
Who
Popular
Vacation
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
Maeve Binchy
Home
People
Will
Enjoy
Write
Feel
Wanted
Stories
Ever
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
Time
Home
Great
Brilliant
Thought
Parents
Accident
Alive
Having
Fed
Write
Writer
Never
Great Time
Wrote
Well
Became
Israel
Still
Were
Just
Wanted
Sent
Them
Newspaper
Reassure
Letters
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
Life
You
Real Life
Say
Phrases
Someone
Write
Put
Accents
Talking
Always
Real
Any
Fancy
Works
Things
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
You
Yourself
Somebody
Important
Nothing
Meet
More
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Than
The Most Important
Loved
Who
Thing
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
People
Pleased
Insane
Writer
Take
Writers
Am
Realize
Vacation
I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.
Maeve Binchy
Girl
Total
Delight
Days
Wore
Should
Fat
I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
Maeve Binchy
You
Think
Wishing
Another
Got
Dealt
Hand
Stop
Play
That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
Maeve Binchy
People
Own
Books
Kind
Charge
Take
Lives
Bring
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