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Emma Healey Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: February 27, 1985

Topics

You Things Explaining Novels

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

Architecture Story True Little Bit

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

Nature Me Easy Ready Enemy My Own

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Grief Words Deepest Fewest

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

Loved Professional Play Games Never

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.

Integrity History Man Rest Honor

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

Know Now Seen Stick Laws Sausage

There'll always be that prep in me that I can't seem to get rid of.

Me Always Seem Get Rid Prep

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

Nature Law Reality Horizon Secrets

I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.

Money Day Long Cost Return Borrow

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

Friendship Water Rock Share Pond

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

Too Much Listen Pleasure Read Much

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.

Life Humor You Sense Of Humor Need

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