Sue Townsend
Sue Townsend
Susan Lillian "Sue" Townsend, FRSLwas an English writer and humorist whose work encompasses novels, plays and works of journalism. She was best known for creating the character Adrian Mole...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 April 1946
mother daughter training
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.
people i-can
She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.
marriage father years
Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?
dream listening-to-others people
There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.
home night thinking
Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.
mother smoking debauchery
8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.
hate thinking perfect
I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loathed everything she stood for.
class vinegar handbags
I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.
monarchy stills corpses
The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.
love-is fighting-on boxing
Love is the only thing that keeps me sane ...
suicide people mad
It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.
interesting diaries adolescence
I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.
writing would-be 1960s
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
sight mobility granted
I took my sight and mobility for granted.