Sue Townsend's Quotes
Born: 1946-04-02
Profession: Novelist
Nation: English
Biography of Sue Townsend
The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.
Tags: Dance, Making, WhileEvery time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.
Tags: Thinking, Time, WorkI am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.
Tags: Friends, Sister, TrainingI never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
Tags: Become, Life, WritingI think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.
Tags: Husband, Life, LoveI'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.
Tags: Away, Love, ThoughtI'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.
Tags: Book, House, LatestLive with all of your senses.
Tags: SensesSometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.
Tags: Give, Hand, SometimesYes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.
Tags: Away, Hate, OldI always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'
Tags: Food, God, PainI married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.
Tags: Birthday, Mother, TimeWe 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.
Tags: Books, Days, Read