Marian Keyes
Marian Keyes
Marian Keyesis an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for her work in women's literature. She is an Irish Book Awards winner. Over 22 million copies of her novels have been sold worldwide and her books have been translated into 32 languages. She became known worldwide for Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, and This Charming Man, with themes including domestic violence and alcoholism...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 September 1963
CountryIreland
I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it? Frame it? Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?
I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.
I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.
Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.
I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.
Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.
I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.
For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.
Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.
I still get awful depression. It's who I am.
Love and kindness go hand in hand.
I'm quite introverted but I'm not shy.
I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.