My Father Was Very Outwardly Religious.

I Read All The Time. I Was Reading A Book I Admire Very Much By Alice Mcdermot Called Charming Billy.

When You're In Danger Of Losing A Thing It Becomes Precious And When It's Around Us, It's In Tedious Abundance And We Take It For Granted As If We're Going To Live Forever, Which We're Not.

Ireland Is A Peculiar Society In The Sense That It Was A Nineteenth Century Society Up To About 1970 And Then It Almost Bypassed The Twentieth Century.

As A Writer, I Write To See. If I Knew How It Would End, I Wouldn't Write. It's A Process Of Discovery.

I Feel I Grew Up In A Different Century Than I Live In. I Think Most Of Them Are Changes For The Good.