Author Profile
Sue Townsend
1946 – 2014 • English • Novelist
48
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 48 quotesI always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.— Sue Townsend
I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.— Sue Townsend
I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.— Sue Townsend
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.— Sue Townsend
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.— Sue Townsend
My cream and black Aga. It is the heart of the house, and people congregate around it.— Sue Townsend
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.— Sue Townsend
I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.— Sue Townsend
Yes, 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.— Sue Townsend
Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.— Sue Townsend
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.— Sue Townsend