190 Quotes by Maeve Binchy

We’re nothing if we’re not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you’ve got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

I’m getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read what I wrote the previous day I think it’s fairly entertaining; other times I think it’s pure rubbish. The main thing is not to take any notice, not to be elated or upset, just keep going.

I’m pleased to have outsold great writers. But I’m not insane – I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

I’m mainly an airport author, and if you’re trying to take your mind off the journey, you’re not going to read ‘King Lear.’

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

I’ve been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

My mother was a trained nurse, and she’d tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.