Interviews
Chicago Tribune
"The message I always give is we are healable. We can't erase the past, but we can live alongside it"
Geelong Advertiser
"When I started to write short stories I had no idea if I could do it or not"
Irish Echo
"I had a lively social life in my twenties," said the 37-year-old Keyes, "But when everyone else dealt with their drinking, mine got worse. I was suffering from low self-esteem and depression."
Irish Independent
Marian says that it took time to get a house suited to their needs when they returned to Ireland from London.
Metro
Five foot nothing with the carefully crafted features of an expensive doll, Keyes is a cross between a young Vivien Leigh and the generic heroine of a children's book. Her cute cheeks, long black hair and green eyes combine to make her look naughty when she's trying to be serious and tragic when she's delivering a devastating one liner.
Metro
Here she [Marian] talks about her first London job and her current passion for shoes.
Daily Mail
...Would you take to a desert island?
The Examiner
"My melon ball is the most precious object I have in my house," says novelist Marian Keyes.
In Dublin
Keyes isn't too enamoured with this "gay best friend" cliché either. "A lot of people my age have gay friends", she says, matter-of-factly.
Source
From the minute I wake up I start working. It's the only way I can do it, because I have such - and a lot of writers say this - I have such terrible fears that this will the day when it finally runs out on me. I feel that if I start straight away it doesn't give the fear time to get a hold.
Sunday Independent
She's dressed in an olive-green polo, a grey skirt and black, size 3 wedges. If it had been any earlier, she'd have been wearing a nightie. Then again, she mightn't have come down at all. Marian rarely rises before five.
The Mirror
It has not been an easy transformation. To achieve it, Marian had to battle against alcoholism and a crippling self-doubt - a battle which spiralled uncontrollably towards a suicide attempt.
Unknown
She is very close to her family, and spends a lot of time with her mother and sister in particular - "they're a howl." Friends and family are very important to her, and one of her favourite ways of relaxing is meeting up with people to have "the craic and a chat."