Quotes by Sue Townsend - Page 2

I became an insomniac, really, hardly slept at all, didn't even try to. And it's carried on. I hate to say I only need as much sleep as Mrs. Thatcher, but I can cope really well on five hours.
Sue Townsend / Novelist
Carried
Cope
Hardly
Mrs
Slept
Thatcher
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I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don't write - I recline on my red velvet sofa with my feet on the coffee table and dictate the letters to my eldest son.
Sue Townsend / Novelist
Coffee
Eldest
Letters
Velvet
Enough Always Me
Coffee Table
Dictate
Sofa
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When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people.
Sue Townsend / Novelist
Blind
Blindness
Deaf
Scared
Music People Talk
Bear
Dreaded
Hear Music
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I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things - I mean, it takes, you know, it's just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again.
Sue Townsend / Novelist
Independence
I Am People Person
Certain Things
Maintain
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People down on their luck deserve the best: beautiful surroundings and well-paid professional staff to help them out of their difficulties. Why not train thousands more social workers and let them sit in on claimants' interviews?
Sue Townsend / Novelist
Deserve
Interviews
Luck
Staff
Surroundings
Why Not
Workers
Difficulties
Social Workers
Thousands
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I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living.
Sue Townsend / Novelist
Dramatic
Eye
Glasses
Lucky
Magnifying
Living
Getting
Gradually
Sounds
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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.
Sue Townsend / Novelist
Home
Night
Thinking
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My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay.
Sue Townsend / Novelist
Dark
Happens
Pay
Pockets
Threatening
Unhappiness
Build
Life Good Always
Life Good Bad
Bad
Life Good Happens
Set
Feeling
Followed
Price
Secrets
Something
Something Good
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The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.
Sue Townsend / Novelist
Desperate
Distraction
Driven
Funding
Morale
Staff
Turnover
Unhappiness
Work Day People
All Day
Work Enough Day
Frequent
Low
Offices
Poorly
Rubs
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I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'
Sue Townsend / Novelist
Cold
Desert
Dry
Feet
Not Knowing
Pain
Thank God
Uncomfortable
Water
Across
Carrying
Thank
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I don't like to be noticed. The older I've got, the more reclusive I've become. I've got late-onset shyness. People are lovely. When they see me in the street, they don't ask for anything from me. They just say: 'I thought it was you, and I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your books,' but I can't seem to cope with it anymore.
Sue Townsend / Novelist
Lovely
Shyness
Your Me People
Cope
Me Street People
Noticed
Reclusive
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Being poor with three small children is terrifying. You can't make any plans. You know you're not going on holiday, ever. There's no way you could ever afford driving lessons or a car. And the guilt I used to feel: they had holes in their shoes, and at one point, I had to send them to school wearing Wellingtons when the sun was shining.
Sue Townsend / Novelist
Car
Guilt
Holes
Holiday
Lessons
Plans
Poor
School
Sun
Three
Afford
Wearing
Small
Terrifying
Point
Send
Small Children
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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 / Novelist
Book
Sexy
Thinking
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