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title: "1 Urge Write Quotes By Maggie O'Farrell"
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> [I always had the urge to write. Not in the sense of wanting to be a writer, but just writing things down, getting words on a page. Graphomania, it's called. I've always had a definite love of stationary products -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/i-always-had-the-urge-to-write-not-in-the-sense-of-wanting-to-be-a/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

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## More by Maggie O'Farrell

> [She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/she-wanted-to-say-no-she-wanted-to-say-i-have-a-son-there-is-a-child/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

> [Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/two-and-a-half-thousand-left-handed-people-are-killed-every-year/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/i-don-t-believe-in-fate-i-don-t-believe-in-cushioning-your/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

> [I met a retired police detective. And he said to me that the interesting thing about heatwaves, from a police perspective, is that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/i-met-a-retired-police-detective-and-he-said-to-me-that-the/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/while-i-was-writing-the-book-one-of-my-children-was-diagnosed-with/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

> [“Why is it that twenty-four hours in the company of your family is capable of reducing you to a teenager?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/why-is-it-that-twenty-four-hours-in-the-company-of-your-family-is/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/i-think-it-s-dangerous-to-have-lots-of-time-on-your-hands-as-a-writer/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/i-think-all-families-have-these-secrets-and-it-s-sometimes-the/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

> [My husband, William Sutcliffe, the writer, is my first reader and in many ways my most important. That initial reading of the manuscript is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/my-husband-william-sutcliffe-the-writer-is-my-first-reader-and-in/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

> [She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/she-liked-the-way-his-smile-took-a-long-time-to-arrive-and-just-as/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

> [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/that-s-because-they-re-of-the-past-all-photos-of-the-past-look/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/we-always-planned-to-move-back-to-the-republic-but-it-never-happened/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

> [I was interested in the ripples of feminism passing through Britain and Ireland in the mid-Seventies - how the reverberations of the feminist political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/i-was-interested-in-the-ripples-of-feminism-passing-through-britain/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

> [Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/listen-the-trees-in-this-story-are-stirring-trembling-readjusting/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

> [In the first night of the Arvon Foundation course, Elspeth Barker said something about the newspaper along the lines of - and I'm paraphrasing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-o-farrell/in-the-first-night-of-the-arvon-foundation-course-elspeth-barker-said/)

[Maggie O'Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-o-farrell/)

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