Sue Townsend Quotes

• Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

  Sue Townsend

  Lying, Book, Promise

  Sue Townsend (2012). “The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year”, p.93, Penguin UK

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• I've always loved books. I'm passionate about them. I think books are sexy. They are smooth and solid and contain delightful surprises. They smell good. They fit into a handbag and can be carried around and opened at will. They don't change. They are what they are and nothing else. One day I want to own a lot of books and have them nbear to me in my house, so that I can stroll to my bookshelves and choose what I fancy. I want a harem. I shall keep my favourites by my bed.

  Sue Townsend

  Sexy, Book, Thinking

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• 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

  Class, Handbags, Vinegar

  "I didn't know what Adrian Mole looked like - well, not until I saw John Major on the telly". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.

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• Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

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  People, Advice, Problem

  Sue Townsend (1989). “Mr. Bevan's Dream”, Vintage

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• She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

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  People, I Can

  Sue Townsend (2012). “The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year”, p.244, Penguin UK

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• 8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

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  Mother, Smoking, Debauchery

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

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  Flower, Mad, Tree

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• Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

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  Thinking, Long, Pieces

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• It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.

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  Suicide, People, Mad

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• 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.

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  Hate, People, Golden

  "Sue Townsend: 'I hate it when people call me a national treasure'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• Creo que para los guionistas de cómics es esencial tener una figura de odio, un déspota, un régimen contra el que reaccionar, y creo que Thatcher era perfecta para mí, detestaba todo lo que representaba.

  Sue Townsend

  Hate, Thinking, Perfect

  2002 In the Observer, 24 Mar.

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• The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

  Sue Townsend

  Monarchy, Stills, Corpses

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• My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.

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  Being In Love, Thinking, Skins

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Hotel

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• I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron.

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  Writing, Needs, Television

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

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  Notebook, House, Different

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• There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

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  Dream, Listening To Others, People

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• I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

  Sue Townsend

  Interesting, Diaries, Adolescence

  Sue Townsend (1994). “Adrian Mole, the lost years”, Soho Pr Inc

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• Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

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  Love Is, Fighting On, Boxing

  Sue Townsend (2013). “Townsend Plays: 1: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole; Womberang; Bazaar and Rummage; Groping for Words; Great Celestial Cow”, p.321, A&C Black

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• Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

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  Marriage, Father, Years

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• I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

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  Father, Careers, Boring

  1982 The Secret Diary of Adrian MoleAged133 /4,'Monday, May 25th'.

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• Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.

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  Home, Night, Thinking

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.

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  Hands, Giving, Way

  "Sue Townsend: 'I hate it when people call me a national treasure'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• I took my sight and mobility for granted.

  Sue Townsend

  Sight, Mobility, Granted

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• I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

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  Writing, Would Be, 1960s

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