Quotes by Gail Honeyman - Page 1

I'd make a terrible casting director.
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Casting
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A bit of perspective and life experience isn't a bad thing.
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Life Experience
Bad Thing
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I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.
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Meticulous
Planners
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If you start a new career at 40, you've still got another 35 years to go.
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New Career
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We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.
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Engaging
Loneliness
Against
Acts
Fight
Random
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If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.
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Debate
Fuel
Loneliness
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I've always found Glasgow to be a wonderful city - warm and funny and full of kindness.
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Glasgow
Warm
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As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.
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Habit
Teenage
Teenage Years
Little Girl
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I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction.
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Friendship
Men And Women
Platonic
Men Women Because
Friendship Women Men
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It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving them feedback.
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Feedback
Work Your People
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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.
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Brutal
Filters
Honesty
Norms
So Much Fun
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Eleanor Oliphant isn't me or anyone I know. Of course I've felt loneliness - everybody does - but Eleanor and her experiences are fictional.
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Loneliness
Fictional
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The skill of a gifted actor, their ability to interpret and develop a character and truly bring her or him to life, is one that I admire enormously.
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Admire
Interpret
Skill
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I don't listen to music when I write. If I do, I usually end up giving it my whole attention, which means, unfortunately, I don't get much work done!
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Attention
Giving
Work Music Done
Unfortunately
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Even with the most horrendous things that happen and the tremendous pain that people have to deal with, they still laugh, because I think that's what it means to be human.
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Tremendous
Horrendous
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Loneliness is a huge issue for both individuals and for society. It's taken a long time for the issue to be treated seriously and for us to begin to understand the impact it can have.
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Loneliness
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This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.
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Faces
Shampoo
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I was hurtling towards 40, and I'd always wanted to write. It does focus your mind, heading towards that big birthday. If there is anything you think you want to do, you think, 'I probably should have a go now!'
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Birthday
Focus
Always Focus Your
Towards
Heading
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Not to sound too Pollyanna-ish, but I think most people are decent, caring human beings. You don't necessarily see that reflected in fiction maybe, because possibly it's perceived as not having much dramatic potential.
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Caring
Decent
Dramatic
People See Potential
Perceived
Reflected
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If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.
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Alluring
Narrative
Point Of View
Life Is A
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The workplace can be a good place to find opportunities to socialise, but what if you don't meet any like-minded people there, or what if you work alone? Is it, somewhat counter-intuitively, easier to find yourself lonely in a city than in a small town or village?
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Good Place
Lonely
Small Town
Village
What If
Workplace
Alone Work Good
Somewhat
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I wanted to write about the transformative power of small acts of kindness. An old man falls in the street, you stop and make sure he's OK. Or even smaller acts than that, though - buying someone a cup of coffee, telling them their hair looks nice - sometimes you don't realise the transformative effect on people. I wanted to celebrate that.
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Buying
Celebrate
Coffee
Hair
Looks
Nice
Old Man
Acts
Cup
Effect
Falls
Street
Ok
Realise
Smaller
Telling
Transformative
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I had been thinking about social awkwardness and about people you meet who are not bad people - there is nothing wrong with them, but they are just a little bit awkward, and it makes you feel uncomfortable, and it makes you want to bring the encounter to an end. I thought, 'Is there a reason for that? What has contributed to their demeanour?'
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Awkward
Bad People
Uncomfortable
Thinking People Feel
Encounter
Just A Little Bit
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