Heather O'Neill Quotes

Heather O'Neill

Heather O'Neill

Canadian Novelist

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Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction. Heather O'Neill

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Many writers were picked on as children. Why? Because they were weird from the get-go. They were often to be found at the back of the class smelling erasers, or talking to caterpillars, or walking down the street with an encyclopedia balanced on their head. Heather O'Neill

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly. Heather O'Neill

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction. Heather O'Neill

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