Maeve Binchy Quotes About Home
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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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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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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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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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