Maeve Binchy: Zitate auf Englisch
“I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot.”
Quelle: Tara Road
On Gordon Snell, her husband. irishtimes.com http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2012/0731/1224321158054.html
On having her first book rejected again and again. bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19057922
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
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
shelf-life.ew.com http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/07/31/circle-of-friends-author-maeve-binchy-dies/
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.”
When asked about her influences. guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/10/maevebinchy
“On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.”
When asked in 1995 how she would like to die. guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/1995/jul/22/fiction.maevebinchy?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
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