In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier. - Wendy Cope
Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.
- Wendy Cope
I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986. - Wendy Cope
I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs. - Wendy Cope
Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs.
I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I … - Wendy Cope
I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I …
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school. - Wendy Cope
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you'r… - Wendy Cope
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you'r…
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because … - Wendy Cope
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because …
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more. - Wendy Cope
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up. - Wendy Cope
Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
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