Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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

More quotes by Marian Keyes

Image
Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
Marian Keyes
Image
I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.
Marian Keyes
Image
The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
Marian Keyes
Image
The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.
Marian Keyes
Image
You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.
Marian Keyes
Image
He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?
Marian Keyes
Image
For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50 zone it is my stomach that is the problem. It seems to have broken free from its moorings and there is no knowing how far it will roam.
Marian Keyes
Image
I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, Where'd she go? and I have to say, I'm down here.
Marian Keyes
Image
Optimism can be relearnt.
Marian Keyes
Image
One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter -The Brightest Star in the Sky.
Marian Keyes
Image
Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.
Marian Keyes
Image
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
Image
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
Marian Keyes
Image
It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.
Marian Keyes
Image
I 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
Image
I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.
Marian Keyes
Image
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.
Marian Keyes
Image
I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.
Marian Keyes
Image
Political correctness is a minefield
Marian Keyes
Image
Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
Marian Keyes