This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how… — Gail Honeyman Everything Copy Share Image
“I go over most Sundays,' he went on. 'She doesn't get out much - I'm sure she'd love to see a new… — Gail Honeyman Eleanor-oliphant Copy Share Image
“Men like Raymond, pedestrial dullards, would always be distracted by women who looked like her, having neither the wit nor the sophistication… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“I allowed my mind to wander. I’ve found this to be a very effective way of passing the time; you take a… — Gail Honeyman Nice things Copy Share Image
“Some people, weak people, fear solitude. What they fail to understand is that there’s something very liberating about it; once you realize… — Gail Honeyman Solitude Copy Share Image
“The moment hung in time like a drop of honey from a spoon, heavy, golden.” — Gail Honeyman Time Copy Share Image
“I have always enjoyed reading, but I've never been sure how to select appropriate material. There are so many books in the… — Gail Honeyman Books Copy Share Image
“A human hand was exactly the right weight, exactly the right temperature for touching another person, I realized.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them. — Gail Honeyman Know Copy Share Image
“I do exist, don’t I? It often feels as if I’m not here, that I’m a figment of my own imagination. There… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction. — Gail Honeyman Friendship Copy Share Image
“When you're struggling hard to manage your own emotions, it becomes unbearable to have to witness other people's, to have to try… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that you could take them for granted, as such - heaven knows, nothing can be taken for granted in this… — Gail Honeyman Bad thing Copy Share Image
“I'm responsible. I chose to put myself in a situation where I'm responsible, wanting to look after her, a small, dependent, vulnerable… — Gail Honeyman Family Copy Share Image
“All of the people in the room seemed to take so much for granted: that they would be invited to social events,… — Gail Honeyman Fall in love Copy Share Image
“I'd worked out that social success is often built on pretending just a little. Popular people sometimes have to laugh at things… — Gail Honeyman Pretending Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure I’d like to be burned. I think I might like to be fed to zoo animals. It would be… — Gail Honeyman Environmentally friendly Copy Share Image
“I have been waiting for death all my life. I do not mean that I actively wish to die, just that I… — Gail Honeyman Death Copy Share Image
“Her home was so...shiny. She was shiny too, her skin, her hair, her shoes, her teeth. I hadn't even realized before; I… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
The skill of a gifted actor, their ability to interpret and develop a character and truly bring her or him to life,… — Gail Honeyman Admire Copy Share Image
“They choose things like plates, bowls and cutlery—I mean, what are they doing at the moment: shoveling food from packets into their… — Gail Honeyman Food Copy Share Image
“I was almost sad when we arrived a the squat, white clubhouse. It was halfway to dark by then, with both a… — Gail Honeyman Calmness Copy Share Image
“I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.… — Gail Honeyman Beautiful people Copy Share Image
“As if a silver in the egg-and-spoon race was some sort of compensation for not understanding how to use an apostrophe.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
