Author Profile
Marian Keyes
1963 • Irish • Writer
44
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Collected Meditations
Showing 44 quotesI know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.— Marian Keyes
Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.— Marian Keyes
Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and more invisible, yet more and more eccentric.— Marian Keyes
Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.— Marian Keyes
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.— Marian Keyes
Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an 'added extra' like the free little biscuit you sometimes get with a cappuccino in a fancy coffee place.— Marian Keyes
I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice.— Marian Keyes
Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.— Marian Keyes
I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending.— Marian Keyes
When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers it's coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I've nothing to write.— Marian Keyes
My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.— Marian Keyes
I think reviewers are sexist... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if you're a woman. I just think that's a fact. I really think less value is put in general on women's voices, across the board.— Marian Keyes
I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.— Marian Keyes