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Emma Healey Quotes

British - Novelist | February 27, 1985 -

I loved 'A Lion in the Meadow' by Margaret Mahy.

Lion Loved Meadow Margaret

Although my father's mother, Nancy, has dementia, and her experiences gave me ideas for some of the scenes in the book, it was my mother's mother, Vera, who most influenced the character of Maud. Vera died in 2008, before I'd gotten very far into writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing,' but her voice is very like Maud's.

Father Mother Character Me Ideas

It's a slow process rewriting your own life in your head. I think that's a writerly thing.

Life Think Process Slow Head Own

Mark Haddon's 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' was published while I was trying to work out how to write 'Elizabeth Is Missing,' and reading the story of that impaired amateur detective gave me the licence I needed to attempt one of my own.

Work Dog Curious Me Reading Story

I really admire Ana Mendieta. She was a Cuban American artist who died the year I was born and whose work examines violence, feminism, and belonging. Her art is always brave and visually arresting and vibrates with meaning.

Work Art Brave American Year Artist

Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No.

People Writing You Sometimes Never

Reading about what a digital native thinks of the Internet is like reading about what it's like to blink: it's kind of boring.

Reading Internet Kind Boring Digital

If you work hard at something, you can forget everything else.

Work Work Hard You Forget Hard Else

I have a study at the back of the house, overlooking our garden. It's tiny, just wide enough to fit my desk in. The walls are covered with pin boards and art postcards from galleries all over the world, including Tate, MoMA, and Lenbachhaus.

Art Walls World Enough Back House

With novels, you're representing things. You're not explaining.

You Things Explaining Novels

I had tried to write about young women in London who had jobs and boyfriends, and it was so tedious.

Women Young London Write Who Tried

I think I'm too scatty.

Think I Think Too

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