Sue Townsend Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Sue Townsend quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased novelist born on Apr 2, 1946). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 49 we have for her.
“Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.”
“I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.”
“I took my sight and mobility for granted.”
“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.”
“I used to think I had nice arms, but I don't even think that anymore.”
“In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.”
“Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.”
“I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler.”
“I don't like to be noticed. The older I've got, the more reclusive I've become. I've got late-onset shyness. People are lovely. When they see me in the street, they don't ask for anything from me. They just say: 'I thought it was you, and I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your books,' but I can't seem to cope with it anymore.”
“In the early days, it was, you know, I used to weep while I was writing. I used to grab at any kind of anything, any hint, any tip of how to make it easy.”
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