Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I’d been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life. M. J. Hyland Read Quote
From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door. M. J. Hyland Read Quote
I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won’t do photographs. M. J. Hyland Read Quote
I’ve never experienced writer’s block. When it’s going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I’m flushed. I get quite delirious. M. J. Hyland Read Quote
As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue. M. J. Hyland Read Quote
Where writers are from is one of the world’ s most boring topics. Where we’re born, gender or race, wealth or poverty – those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I’m a writer. Worry about whether I’m any good! M. J. Hyland Read Quote
I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality. M. J. Hyland Read Quote
I’ve just finished reading ‘The Second Plane,’ and I think it’s some of the best non-fiction I’ve ever read. M. J. Hyland Read Quote
I have been obscenely lucky. I’ve got most of the things I’ve asked for and done well at the things I’ve wanted to succeed at. M. J. Hyland Read Quote
