Mary Wesley
Mary Wesley
Mary Wesley, CBEwas an English novelist. During her career, she was one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including 10 bestsellers in the last 20 years of her life...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 June 1912
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growing-up children thinking
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.
husband taken thinking
My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.
awful children france keen knew local took travels west
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
suggestion
You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.
people challenges threatening
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
divorce years people
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
garden people young
I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.
teaching writing looking-back
Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
moving towns sensible
It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.
falling-in-love love-is play
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
florida people boring
A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
fun risk pay
Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!
running years car
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
people persons variety
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.