I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with … - Maeve Binchy

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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

Maeve Binchy

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.

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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

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 in life, really. And I think we are all striving for it in different ways. I also believe very, very strongly that everybody is the hero
heroine of his
her own life. 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

Believe, Character, Hero, Kind, Loss, Loves

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

Confident, Ducklings, Ducks, Swans, Ugly Duckling, Writing

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

Know, Knows, Looks, Nobody, Ordinary

If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

Dance, Ifs, Rejected