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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

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Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

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We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

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I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

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I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.

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I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: May 28th, 1940

Died: June 30th, 2012

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