Maeve Binchy citations

Maeve Binchy, née le 28 mai 1939 à Dalkey, en Irlande et morte le 30 juillet 2012, est une romancière et chroniqueuse irlandaise. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. mai 1940 – 30. juillet 2012
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Maeve Binchy: Citations en anglais

“It's like if you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.”

On having her first book rejected again and again. bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19057922

“Suddenly they asked me, as only the French would, ‘Madame, what is your philosophy of life?’ What a cosmic question, but I had to answer, and answer quickly, because it was live. So I said, in French, ‘I think that you’ve got to play the hand that you’re dealt and stop wishing for another hand.”

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

“I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.”

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

“I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.”

shelf-life.ew.com http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/07/31/circle-of-friends-author-maeve-binchy-dies/

“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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