Tana French
Tana French
Tana Frenchis an Irish novelist and theatrical actress. Her debut novel In the Woods, a psychological mystery, won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards for best first novel. She lives in Dublin...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
CountryIreland
profound mind band
Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.
bones like-you our-family
You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone.
caught mundane
I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.
too-much needs get-away
Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?
hours throwing company
I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.
acting months week
With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
life-changing writing forever
I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.
writing way needs
I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
needs fifty nine
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
people hell
Sarte was right, Hell is other people
people missing sometimes
Sometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't.
people littles murderer
Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.
hate laziness accessories
I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories ...
retrospect noticing
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.