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The problem with being Irish ... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen

Head in the book. Nose sliding down the valley between the pages.

They were joking, but it was a serious conversation. They were often like that, Mary and her granny, when they were alone together.

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

We'll cry," she said. "An then we'll stop. Because it's only a house.

One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn't a clue. A day is a fuckin' eternity

Mary,' said her mother. 'We don't like sarcasm '
'You mightn't like it,' said Mary. 'But I love it.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.

She was in the book again and, by the time she got to page-turning time again, she'd forgetting I was there.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

I was the ref. I was the ref they didn't know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win

My parents were sixty years married.

I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

Jesus, she said. -Are you in there at all? -I am, Annie, I told her. -Bursting to get out.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

Terror. That was it.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

It often seemed that the trees were flu of people whispering
especially tonight.

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.

I like naming characters.

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

Do ghosts drink tea?
They don't, said Tansey. But this ghost would love to see a cup of tea in front of her. It'd be lovely.

The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.

It's the only thing sexier than a sexy woman. A sexy woman cooking fuckin' sausages.

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

We parked our bikes on verges so they could graze.