Sue Townsend
Sue Townsend
Susan Lillian "Sue" Townsend, FRSLwas an English writer and humorist whose work encompasses novels, plays and works of journalism. She was best known for creating the character Adrian Mole...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 April 1946
father careers boring
I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.
husband thinking years
I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.
monarchy stills corpses
The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.
sight mobility granted
I took my sight and mobility for granted.
responsibility hotel
I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.
notebook house different
I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.
hands giving way
Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.
hate people treasure
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.
world worst
I am the world's worst diabetic.
father hands hair
Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.
birthday mother children
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.
being-in-love thinking skins
My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.
flower mad tree
I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.
marriage father years
Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?