Good Ideas Are Often Murdered By Better

Most Working Days I Can Be At My Desk For Nine Hours A Day.

If There Is A Heaven, Jane Austen Is Sitting In A Small Room With Mother Teresa And Princess Diana, Listening To Duran Duran, Forever. If There's A Hell, She's Standing.

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 A Kid, If You Didn't Speak Irish, You Really Wanted To. And You Played Gaelic Games And You Didn't Pay Any Attention To What Was Happening In The Outside World, Because Really, The - Ireland Was The Center Of The Universe. And I Don't Think That's The Case Anymore, Although, Admittedly, It Is The Center Of The Universe.

I Wasn't Even Aware Of The Year Of The Family. I Couldn't Give A Toss. These Things - The Year Of The Family, The Year Of The Three-legged Dog. I Think It's All Trash.