I love her quotation about going to a dance...
In a 2001 interview with the BBC, after she had won the WHSmith Book Award for fiction, Binchy described the five rejections she received for her first novel as "a slap in the face".
Binchy had sold more than 40 million books worldwide
She said she was glad she persevered and sent the book to a sixth publisher.
"It's like if you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either," she said.
In a 2001 interview with the BBC, after she had won the WHSmith Book Award for fiction, Binchy described the five rejections she received for her first novel as "a slap in the face".
Binchy had sold more than 40 million books worldwide "It's like if you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either," she said.
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