Mary Wesley Professions : Novelist Born : June 24, 1912 Died : December 30, 2002 Browse All Authors Top 29 quotes by Mary Wesley Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. Mary Wesley people Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love. Mary Wesley conception persons people Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun! Mary Wesley risk doe fun We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. Mary Wesley growing-up children thinking I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse. Mary Wesley intelligent girl men My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20. Mary Wesley marriage mother father We all lie to each other, present some sort of front. Mary Wesley fronts lying Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. Mary Wesley husband courage children My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead. Mary Wesley husband taken thinking Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety. Mary Wesley change games men In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer. Mary Wesley friends vocabulary important I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination. Mary Wesley reader appearance imagination Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage. Mary Wesley marriage persons knows I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school. Mary Wesley mother science school I don't write for any particular kind of person. Mary Wesley kind persons writing A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring. Mary Wesley florida boring people They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises. Mary Wesley surprise disappointment may Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car. Mary Wesley car running years I never really know the title of a book until it's finished. Mary Wesley titles knows book I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people. Mary Wesley garden young people Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
