If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.
Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should be raw. They should be written as perfectly as possible, but what th...
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.
When something has been perfect there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.