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“I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.”

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“I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot.”

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“(A) writer, a man I loved and he loved me and we got married and it was great and is still great. He believed I could do anything, just as my parents had believed all those years ago, and I started to write fiction and that took off fine. And he loved Ireland, and the fax was invented so we writers could live anywhere we liked, instead of living in London near publishers.”

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On Gordon Snell, her husband. irishtimes.com http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2012/0731/1224321158054.html

“It's like if you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.”

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On having her first book rejected again and again. bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19057922

“Suddenly they asked me, as only the French would, ‘Madame, what is your philosophy of life?’ What a cosmic question, but I had to answer, and answer quickly, because it was live. So I said, in French, ‘I think that you’ve got to play the hand that you’re dealt and stop wishing for another hand.”

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Recalling being invited to appear on French TV on what she described as “a terrifying serious program about books”. nydailynews.com http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/popular-irish-author-maeve-binchy-dies-72-article-1.1125516?localLinksEnabled=false

“I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.”

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On her preference for issues that could be argued with from either side. nydailynews.com http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/popular-irish-author-maeve-binchy-dies-72-article-1.1125516?pgno=1

“I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.”

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shelf-life.ew.com http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/07/31/circle-of-friends-author-maeve-binchy-dies/

“I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare', I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning', I say I 'passed a school'. You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.”

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On her secret to writing. bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19057922

“I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.”

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When asked about her influences. guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/10/maevebinchy