Arrested Quote by Emma Healey

People always want to give you advice about parenting. People who you've never met before will tell you you're doing something wrong. And it's…

— Emma Healey

I used to say I wasn't interested in writing about characters.

— Emma Healey

I can trace my interest in modern classics to the summer before art college.

— Emma Healey

I was a 20-something woman living in London and didn't want to write about a 20-something woman living in London! It's an area well…

— Emma Healey

While I was writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing' and struggling with the intricacies of the plot, I told myself the next book would be really…

— Emma Healey

I feel like Mills and Boon saved my life. It was a way of not living. I read a lot of other books as…

— Emma Healey

I've been surprised that 'Elizabeth is Missing' has been so well received as a crime book. I love mystery stories, and that is what…

— Emma Healey

When I was writing my first novel, 'Elizabeth is Missing,' I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing about the…

— Emma Healey

“My reflection always gives me a shock. I never really believed I would age, and certainly not like this.”

— Emma Healey

Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No.

— Emma Healey

I spend a ridiculous amount on pots, lilacs, and alliums.

— Emma Healey

Several members of my family have, or have had, one form of dementia or another. I really wanted to explore what it might like…

— Emma Healey