Sue Townsend Quotes - BrainyQuote

English - Novelist April 2, 1946 - April 10, 2014

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

Dance Monarchy Making Still

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

Life Love You Anniversary

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

God Water Food Thank God

I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.

Daughter I Am Sister Friends

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

Good Me Time Evil

Live with all of your senses.

Live Your Senses

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

Work Time Long Thinking

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Life My Life Never Writing

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.

Birthday Time Mother Children

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.

You Library House Own

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Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.

Me You Hate People

I am the world's worst diabetic.

I Am World Worst Am

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

Sometimes Way How Give

I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.

Love Day Thought Hotel

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

Sight Mobility Granted Took

I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

Book House Different Seven

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

Pleasure Guilty Watching Show

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

Me I Am Forget Poor

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

Home Midnight Write Used

I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!

Myself Secrets Beyond Keep

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.

Car Holiday You Children

I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle.

Life Daily You Laugh

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.

End Glasses Eye I Can

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

Failure I Am Diet Being

When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people.

Music People Child Blind

My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.

Me Moment Husband Go

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