Interviews
Cara Magazine
It hasn't been that easy. Raised around Dun Laoghaire, Marian first began writing stories - "dreadful stories" - at school. "I was good at English, and I felt misunderstood and creative, but then practically everyone else feels like that as a teenager.
Evening Herald
The doyenne of Irish thirtysomething angst has to be bestselling Marian Keyes, the writer who shot to prominence a few years ago with Watermelon, her debut novel.
Ireland on Sunday
Marian Keyes looks like a refugee from a Bord Failte ad. With eyes the colour of Connemara marble, long dark hair and a sprinkling of freckles she could be straight off a Taiwan assembly line for Irish "callins."
Irish Independent
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Living Space
Marian has a never-ending supply or original ideas of what she hopes to do with her dream house should finances allow.
News Four
"They're all in their early thirties and are forced to face up to the own mortality - it's a comedy about life." The book is both touching and hilarious and, if possible, even better than the rest.
The Sunday Business Post
She is third biggest-selling Irish writer, snapping at the heels of Maeve Binchy and Roddy Doyle.
Ireland on Sunday
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Irish Times
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The Birmingham Post
It takes Marian about 15 months to write a novel. Unlike many novelists, she does not plan them. She starts with her characters and proceeds by instinct.
The Catholic Universe
"I've given up searching for reasons," she shrugs. "But there is one school of thought that people are born with a predisposition to addiction. That's the only one that ever made any sense to me."
The Examiner
"It's a question of instant intimacy; if a fiction buyer has bought a lot of my books for a shop I'm glad to convey my gratitude. What I love most is the readings. The very fact that someone comes to hear me is the greatest source of gratification for me. Usually there are from 40-50 at them and they ask questions. They're my real readers and I love meeting them."
Womans Way
I have to con myself into working - if I start while I'm sill half-asleep, I'm into it before I know what I'm doing.