I'm A Complete And Utter Fiction. Then

There's A Part Of Me That Thinks Perhaps We Go On Existing In A Place Even After We've Left It.

A Lot Of People Think That Writers Are Much Cleverer Than They Actually Are. No, They're Not. But They're Emotionally Clever, And They Go Into A Character, And They Feel Something That They Weren't Entirely Aware Of Beforehand.

...it Was Necessary To Love Silence, But Before You Could Love Silence You Had To Have Noise.

Novels Are More Difficult Simply Because They Are Longer And Require More Juggling, But Short Stories Are Closer To Perfection, If You Can Get The Language Right.

Anakana Schofield Is Part Of A New Wave Of Wonderful Irish Fiction-international In Scope And Electrically Alive.