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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 Quotes) I think it’s a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it’s better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.  (Wendy Cope Quotes) 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 they’re afraid of being seen as light versifiers.  (Wendy Cope Quotes) Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear  (Wendy Cope Quotes) I’ve never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986  (Wendy Cope Quotes) Possibly I’ve become less funny as I’ve been happier  (Wendy Cope Quotes) Never trust a journalist  (Wendy Cope Quotes) 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 they’re afraid of being seen as light versifiers  (Wendy Cope Quotes) And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle and the whole business is unbelievably dreadful, if you’re single  (Wendy Cope Quotes) 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 Quotes) The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet’s wife cannot understand it  (Wendy Cope Quotes) I think it’s a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it’s better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots  (Wendy Cope Quotes) 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  (Wendy Cope Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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’re afraid it’s going to upset someone, don’t publish it  (Wendy Cope Quotes) Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion  (Wendy Cope Quotes)