Mary Wesley Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Mary Wesley quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased novelist born on Jun 24, 1912). These are the last 9 out of 29 quotes we have for her.
“I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.”
“It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.”
“Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.”
“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, going on learning.”
“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 vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.”
“It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.”
“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 first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.”
“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 of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.”
“You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.”
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