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I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living.

~Sue Townsend

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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.

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The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

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I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

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I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.

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Live with all of your senses.

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Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

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I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

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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.

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We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: April 2nd, 1946

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