Gail Honeyman Quotes

'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of social norms.

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• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

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• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

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• People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

  

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• Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.

  

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• My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

  

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• You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

  

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• In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

  

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• I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.

  

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• I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

  

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• I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

  

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• I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

  

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• Everybody has a story... and a scream.

  

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• As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

  

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• Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.

  

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• I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

  

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• I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.

  

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• We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

  

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• I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

  

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• I like sugar, be it candy, this season's pumpkin chocolate chip bars, or wine. Sugar is bad for me. It just sits on my tummy, causing my middle child Esme to ask if we are having a fourth baby. Rude!

  

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• No matter how you feel about your extended family or family gatherings you will be attending. This is because now the ultimate reason for attending family gatherings is for your children to have the time of their lives with their cousins. Little kids love their cousins. I’m not being cute or exaggerating here. Cousins are like celebrities for little kids. If little kids had a People magazine, cousins would be on the cover. Cousins are the barometers of how fun a family get-together will be. “Are the cousins going to be there? Fun!

  

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• 'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of social norms.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • She
  • Fun
  • Honesty