“Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes awa...” — Sue Townsend Quote

“Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.”

“Live with all of your senses.”

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

“I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'”

“Everybody knows how to throw a punch. Not correctly - he or she might not know how to turn the wrist or know what part of the hand to hit with. But humans instinctively know to fight, whether they bite or claw or pull hair. It's an instinct.”

“Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.'”