Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people. — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
You need a lot of energy to get a novel finished. You need an ability to ignore everyone around you. It's why… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
You learn so much with each book, but it's what you teach yourself by writing your own books and by reading good… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
There was so much anti-Irish sentiment not just from other kids at the school I went to in Britain, but also the… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
All the time I was plowing through books on dyslexia, I found myself asking: what if, what if? What if you were… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon,… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
When I worked at The Independent newspaper, I had colleagues who would laugh and say that whenever they picked up the phone… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I met a retired police detective. And he said to me that the interesting thing about heatwaves, from a police perspective, is… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I have no control, of course, over how I'm marketed. It's a sad thing, though, that so many people perceive literature to… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
People had tell me the most personal things. People I'd never met before would say thing like "Oh, that was the summer… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
While I was writing the book, one of my children was diagnosed with dyslexia. Dyslexia is a very tiny word for a… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
The role you've been ascribed in childhood can twist or break apart or seem outgrown, especially when you have your own family… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people. — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you 'Don't worry. This may… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
I met a retired police detective. And he said to me that the interesting thing about heatwaves, from a police perspective, is that the… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
While I was writing the book, one of my children was diagnosed with dyslexia. Dyslexia is a very tiny word for a wide-ranging neurological… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
“Why is it that twenty-four hours in the company of your family is capable of reducing you to a teenager?” — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
I think it's dangerous to have lots of time on your hands as a writer. Time to pursue every little alleyway, to follow every… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
I think all families have these secrets, and it's sometimes the strangest things that bring them out. That was part of my interest in… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
My husband, William Sutcliffe, the writer, is my first reader and in many ways my most important. That initial reading of the manuscript is… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave. — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
“That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone.” — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
We always planned to move back to the Republic but it never happened, I'm not sure why. My dad is one of those immigrants… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
I was interested in the ripples of feminism passing through Britain and Ireland in the mid-Seventies - how the reverberations of the feminist political… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
In the first night of the Arvon Foundation course, Elspeth Barker said something about the newspaper along the lines of - and I'm paraphrasing… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
