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Maeve Binchy Biography

Maeve Binchy Snell (28 May 1939 – 30 July 2012), known as Maeve Binchy, was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker best known for her sympathetic and often humorous portrayal of small-town life in Ireland, her descriptive characters, her interest in human nature, and her often clever surprise endings. Her novels, which were translated into 37 languages, sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and her death at age 73, announced by Vincent Browne on Irish television late on 30 July 2012, was mourned as the death of Ireland's best-loved and most recognisable writer.

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In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.

Bored, Land, Person, Stories, Story, Visit

When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.

Friend, Parent, Rabbits, Sister, Swap, Thinking

You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

Believable, Ifs, Talk, Voice

Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.

Comfort, Giving, Happiness, Happy, Success, Zone

My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.

Best Marriage, Brother, Know, Married, Young

I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.

Beautiful, Heroines, Life, Swans, Thinking

My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

Face, Fighting, Mask, Mother, Nurse, Trained

I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine and curry and cheeses.

Curry, Liked, Sauces, Sweet, Teeth, Wine

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.

Thinking, Decision, Brave, Based, Decisions

The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.

Book, Long, Newspaper, Paper, Writing

I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.

Years, Makers, Made, Maker, Year

In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!

Charming, Intelligent, Stories, Wonderful

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.

Vacation, People, Insane, Outsold, Writer

My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!

Down, Father, Half, Journey, Long, Work

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

Expected, Good, Good Life, Happiness, Success

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

Character, Loss, Love, Make, Perhaps Love, Relate

Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

Day, Different, Doctors, Done, Should Have, Walked

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates or with big dogs.

Children, Dog, People, Skates, Sticks, Thought

We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.

Dealt, Decision, Decisions, Hands, Happiness, Play

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.

Teacher, Children, Home, English, Viney

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