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I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!

I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

Sue Townsend

Live with all of your senses.

Sue Townsend

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

Sue Townsend

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

Sue Townsend

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.

Sue Townsend

I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.

Sue Townsend

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

Sue Townsend

I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things - I mean, it takes, you know, it's just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again.

Sue Townsend

I have a slight addiction to Diet Coke, and, of course, I absolutely shouldn't touch it because it makes the kidneys work really hard.

Sue Townsend

I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don't write - I recline on my red velvet sofa with my feet on the coffee table and dictate the letters to my eldest son.

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I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason.

Sue Townsend

Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.

Sue Townsend

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.

Sue Townsend

In the early days, it was, you know, I used to weep while I was writing. I used to grab at any kind of anything, any hint, any tip of how to make it easy.

Sue Townsend

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

Sue Townsend

I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!

Sue Townsend

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

Sue Townsend

I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary.

Sue Townsend

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.'

Sue Townsend

The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.

Sue Townsend