All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Most people, once the money started getting bigger, thought we would buy a millionaire's house looking out at the sea - but… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient -… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
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… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“He had not known it was possible to love a little human being as he loved Annie.” — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“Listen to me, Ria. It will be different when you and I have a home. It will be a real home, one that people… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint -… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream,… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“If you had your time all over again…? She was keen to know. You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do.” — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I do try to live every day as if it were my last, and it has worked for me so far. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“He called everyone sweetheart. There was nothing particularly special about it.” — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
