Mary Wesley Quotes

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• I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.
• I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.
• I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.
• Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my…
• Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing…
• We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things,…
• It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.
• Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
• People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
• My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the…
• We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.
• I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt…
• Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been…
• Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!
• Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
• They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
• My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course…
• Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.
• In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the…
• I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

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