Quotes from Marian Keyes

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.

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.

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.

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

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

There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?

How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

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.

Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never mocked, whereas it's easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we're used to it.

Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.

I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realized I'm not special.

Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.

I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.

I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.