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Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.

Marian Keyes

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Limerick City
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Writing
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Wake
Afraid
Write
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Today

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Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.
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Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
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Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
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