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Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

Mary Wesley

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Mary Wesley
Age: 90 †
Born: 1912
Born: June 24
Died: 2002
Died: December 30
Novelist
Writer
Englefield Green
Surrey
Mary Aline Farmar
Looking
Understand
Write
Back
Writing
Teaching

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They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
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I don't write for any particular kind of person.
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We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.
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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.
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It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.
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Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!
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I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.
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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.
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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.
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I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.
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Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
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Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
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