16 Emma Healey Quotes for You to Enjoy

Emma Healey

British Novelist

Born: Feb 27, 1985

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Related authors: Anne Bronte Charles Morgan Charlotte Bronte Hector Hugh Munro Helen Oyeyemi Jeanette Winterson Roald Dahl Zadie Smith

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

You People Writing Sometimes Carry Would Never Had Reader Ask

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. Emma Healey

Internet Digital Reading Kind Boring About Like Blink Native Thinks

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. Emma Healey

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. Emma Healey

I think I'm too scatty. Emma Healey

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I feel like Mills and Boon saved my life. It was a way of not living. I read a lot of other books as well, but they were definitely the best for just switching my brain off, not having to deal with reality. Emma Healey

Life Best Reality My Life Living Saved Other Books Way Boon Definitely Having Feel Like Well Read Deal Were Brain Lot Off Just Switching Mills

People always want to give you advice about parenting. People who you've never met before will tell you you're doing something wrong. And it's quite similar in writing. People forget that you're a human; they just want to give you their advice. Emma Healey

Several members of my family have, or have had, one form of dementia or another. I really wanted to explore what it might like in fiction, but I didn't know how to start. Emma Healey

Family Several Members Had Like Dementia Know Another How Fiction Wanted Form Might Really Explore Start

I found 'The Face Of Another' by Kobo Abe disappointing despite the excellent, gothic premise: a man who's terrible facial scarring leads him to create a perfect mask. Emma Healey

Man Face Mask Despite Abe Facial Perfect Excellent Disappointing Leads Terrible Him Another Gothic Create Premise Found

I tried to help a shirtless man who was being arrested in Starbucks. He obviously wasn't right in the head, but the police thought I was trying to make things worse. Emma Healey

Man Police Thought Worse Tried He Head Obviously Make Arrested Trying Being Help Who Starbucks Right Things

When I was very small, I loved 'Meg And Mog' by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski. I had all the books and remember going to see the theatre production. Emma Healey

Theatre Remember Books See Small Had Very Going Loved Production

Penelope Fitzgerald never fails to surprise: her language is clever and elegant, her settings are unusual, her characters are unpredictable, and I am always caught out by a line or moment which makes me laugh out loud. Emma Healey

Me Language Clever Settings Laugh Out Characters Unpredictable Never Fails Unusual Makes Always Am Caught Line Surprise Loud Fitzgerald Which Moment Elegant Her

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. Emma Healey

Character Me Book Writing Mother Father Before Gave Some Voice Scenes Missing Like Dementia Ideas Most Nancy Although Vera Gotten Very Died Influenced Experiences Far Who Her Elizabeth

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