Tana French Quotes

Tana French — Irish Novelist born on December 30, 1973,

Tana French is an Irish novelist and theatrical actress. Her debut novel In the Woods, a psychological mystery, won the Edgar,Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards for best first novel. She lives in Dublin... (wikipedia)

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

Tana French Quotes

Tana French Quotes

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