I Love The Characters Not Knowing Everything

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.

I’m Really Lucky With The People Around Me. They Know Me, So They Don’t Confuse The Issues Really. They Know What A Book Is And They Know Who I Am And They Know The Difference Between The Two.

Story Is About Pulling The Reader In And A Plot Is A More Externalized Mechanism Of Revelation. A Plot Is More Antic, More Performative, And Less Intimate. When You're Telling A Story You're Telling It Into Someone's Ear.

Having Kids Is Very Difficult To Do On Your Own, And It's Really Crazy Difficult To Think You're Doing It As A Team And To Find Out That You're Not Actually Part Of A Team.

I've Heard People, Usually Writers, Say That No One Wrote A Great Book After Winning The Booker, But I Honestly Did Not Feel Any Big Pressure. The Gathering Did Hang Over Me In That It Was Darker Than I Thought At The Time.