Marian Keyes : (7)

" 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

" Here’s how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth. " - 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

" 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

" There’s no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly. " - Marian Keyes

" For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness. " - Marian Keyes

" Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control of the purse strings as a system of reward and punishment. It will also suffer if the lower earner takes a chippy, haughty attitude to spending money they haven’t actually generated themselves. " - Marian Keyes