21 Sue Townsend Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sue Townsend

English Novelist

Born: Apr 2, 1946

Died: Apr 10, 2014

Am Me People Time Work You

Related authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens E. M. Forster J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Hardy William Golding William Makepeace Thackeray

My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay. Sue Townsend

I don't like to be noticed. The older I've got, the more reclusive I've become. I've got late-onset shyness. People are lovely. When they see me in the street, they don't ask for anything from me. They just say: 'I thought it was you, and I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your books,' but I can't seem to cope with it anymore. Sue Townsend

Me You People Thought Become Older Enjoy Books Say Reclusive See Seem More Like Got How How Much Just Anymore Wanted Anything Lovely Ask Much Noticed Your Street Cope Shyness

I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don't write - I recline on my red velvet sofa with my feet on the coffee table and dictate the letters to my eldest son. Sue Townsend

The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you. Sue Townsend

Work Day You People Desperate Rubs Enough Extremely All Day Distraction Morale Given Driven Frequent Off Very Offices Staff Unhappiness Low Poorly Working Turnover Paid Amount Funding

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance. Sue Townsend

Dance Finished Corpses Making Still While Monarchy

Live with all of your senses. Sue Townsend

Live Senses Your

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house. Sue Townsend

Time Birthday Mother Three Single Young Living Too Daniel Married Small Small Children Weeks House Single Mother Children After Victoria Far Sean Two Two Weeks By The Time

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could. Sue Townsend

You Library Own Our Books Those Would Would-Be Could Had Days House Read Eight Them Fortnight Many

Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other. Sue Townsend

Sometimes Other Way Rant About Give Take How Hand Gods

Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure. Sue Townsend

Pleasure Guilty Guilty Pleasure Show Jeremy Watching

When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards. Sue Townsend

Home Kids Write Were Midnight Used

Being poor with three small children is terrifying. You can't make any plans. You know you're not going on holiday, ever. There's no way you could ever afford driving lessons or a car. And the guilt I used to feel: they had holes in their shoes, and at one point, I had to send them to school wearing Wellingtons when the sun was shining. Sue Townsend

You School Car Guilt Three Shoes Way Sun Wearing Small Small Children Point Could Had Driving Feel Know Make Terrifying Shining Afford Send Any Going Being Children Holes Holiday Them Poor Used Plans Lessons Ever

I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living. Sue Townsend

Glasses Gone Living Other Dramatic Eye Kind Magnifying Make Still Sounds End Very Same Gradually Getting Lucky Now

I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen. Sue Townsend

Same Thing Over Major Concerto Same Listen Again Thing Violin

I became an insomniac, really, hardly slept at all, didn't even try to. And it's carried on. I hate to say I only need as much sleep as Mrs. Thatcher, but I can cope really well on five hours. Sue Townsend

Hate Try Slept Say Carried Only Hours Well Became Five Thatcher Much Really Even Cope Hardly Need Sleep

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