Marian Keyes Quotes

I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.

The job in every re-write is to make it harder for your characters to get the thing that they need.

The greater the darkness, the better the drama.

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it.

'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.

Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.

I've always felt in my own small, little way that if I could just write a story where it works out well, where the scales of justice are balanced, then that's something that I do really love to see in the world.

A compelling story requires conflict, friction, an obstacle to be overcome.

My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

Every good business story has a conflict and triumph at the core and a turning point where a transformation takes place.

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.

Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

Character development is conflict.

Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.