Binchy Writer Quotes

#1. Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.

Tom Stoppard

#2. I'm an escapist kind of writer.

Maeve Binchy

#3. A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

H.L. Mencken

#4. Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.

Susan Jane Gilman

#5. World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

Ernest Hemingway,

#6. Don't be difficult, Bear. It's unattractive.

T.J. Klune

#7. A lesson for you, Mr. Grim: Intending an action and doing it are far from the same thing. Until you are right there, with the choice in front of you, you can only guess what you might do, and what your character might be. Are you hero or coward? Often you will guess wrong.

Violet Haberdasher

#8. I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

Maeve Binchy

#9. I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

Maeve Binchy

#10. 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

#11. It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

George Santayana

#12. 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.

Maeve Binchy

#13. I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

Maeve Binchy

#14. Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.

Ziad K. Abdelnour