Maeve Binchy
Maeve Binchy
Maeve Binchy Snell, known as Maeve Binchy, was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker best known for her sympathetic and often humorous portrayal of small-town life in Ireland, her descriptive characters, her interest in human nature, and her often clever surprise endings. Her novels, which were translated into 37 languages, sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and her death at age 73, announced by Vincent Browne on Irish television late on 30 July 2012, was...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 May 1940
CountryIreland
I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.
I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice,
In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.
Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.
I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates or with big dogs.
My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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 great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!