114 Quotes by 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.

In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.

Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.

I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

I have a slight addiction to Diet Coke, and, of course, I absolutely shouldn't touch it because it makes the kidneys work really hard.

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

I used to think I had nice arms, but I don't even think that anymore.

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