Maeve Binchy Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

  Maeve Binchy

  Reading, Thinking, Parent

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

• 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

  Home, Writing, Israel

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

• When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.

  Maeve Binchy

  Thinking, Parent, Rabbits

  Interview With Jessica Simmons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2010.

• An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

  Maeve Binchy

  Teacher, Children, Home

  Interview With Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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