Marian Keyes Quotes

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

The amount of people that I feel like... I'm not being self-demeaning, but I actually feel like I'm not as cool as them, you know what I mean?

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.

I'm not great at talking about myself.

I'm not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated.

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people. I was never quite as groomed as everyone else, never quite as fit as anyone else. I didn't have my protein shake and my vitamins.

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

I'm so not perfect.

There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.

All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

I have no talent. I have nothing to offer.

I think Maura'is funnier than I am, wittier than I am, more intelligent than I am, and I think she's just floating me at this point.

I feel like I'm a beginner in everything in life.

I don't feel like I make sense in the world. I don't feel like I look right. I don't feel like I act right or do right. It's very frustrating to me that I just walk around with this all the time.

Everybody thinks I am a narcissist. I am actually the opposite of that.

I had a desperate need to be Van Gogh or something. Some tremendous artist. Jack's so successful, what's wrong with me, why isn't this working for me? I hated myself.