A Novel Is Written Not To Be

Nothing Had Happened Yet In My Life Except The Need To Get Out Of It.

I Do Not Think We Remember Our Family In Any Real Sense. We Live In Them Instead

I Never Wanted To Be Mainstream As A Writer, But Look At What's Happened.

I'm Very Keenly Aware That There Aren't Very Many Women Writing Literary Fiction In Ireland And So That Gives Me A Sense That What I Say Matters, In Some Small Way.

There Are So Few People Given Us To Love. I Want To Tell My Daughters This, That Each Time You Fall In Love It Is Important, Even At Nineteen. Especially At Nineteen. And If You Can, At Nineteen, Count The People You Love On One Hand, You Will Not, At Forty, Have Run Out Of Fingers On The Other. There Are So Few People Given Us To Love And They All Stick.