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
easily quite
I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason.
prefer
I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!
listen violin
I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.
hard laugh life
I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle.
admirer fascinated
I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.
lack piece seems spend start thinking time work
Lack of confidence - every time I start a new piece of work, it seems I have to spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.
barbara dame furs grand people taylor
I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.
cream people
My cream and black Aga. It is the heart of the house, and people congregate around it.
became carried five hardly slept
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.
bite call harmless people takes
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.
encouraged group husband local second
My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.
bear dreaded hear music rather scared talk though
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.
charge kept people teacher three
In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.
jeremy kyle
Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.