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Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

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I'm quite introverted but I'm not shy.

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I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.

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Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.

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I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.

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My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

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I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

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I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

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When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers it's coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I've nothing to write.

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Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never mocked, whereas it's easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we're used to it.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Writer

Born: September 10th, 1963

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