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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• Maeve Binchy:

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

• Maeve Binchy:

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

• Maeve Binchy:

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

• Maeve Binchy:

  I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

• Maeve Binchy:

  That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

• Maeve Binchy:

  If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's W

• Maeve Binchy:

  There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes

• Maeve Binchy:

  I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not go

• Maeve Binchy:

  I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

• Maeve Binchy:

  When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if pare