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Born: 1962-10-11
Profession: Author
Nation: Irish
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Tags: Crisis, Life, Together

Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in 'Old Ireland.' It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can't think of anything else for definite.

Tags: Else, Friendly, Old

Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.

Tags: Keep, Nice, Speak


Tags: Marriage, Woman, Writing


Tags: Away, Until, Young

There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

Tags: Dark, Sense, Sometimes


Tags: Amazing, Life, Lives

You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.

Tags: Book, Job, Writing


Tags: Kids, Time, Working


Tags: Happy, Since, Writer


Tags: Irish, Might, True

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

Tags: Knowing, Love, Room

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

Tags: Happened, Wanted, Writer


Tags: Character, Woman, Write

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

Tags: Lovely, Old, Women

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

Tags: Natural, Work, Writing


Tags: Quite, Tell, Why

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

Tags: Actually, Character, Sense

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

Tags: Ireland, Societies, Tell

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

Tags: Hard, Life, Words

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

Tags: Short, Time, Writing


Tags: Able, Space, Write

When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

Tags: Away, Feeling, Working

I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?

Tags: Brain, Off, Talking


Tags: American, Wish, Women


Tags: Quite, Social, Work

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I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

Tags: Light, Small, Write

I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day.

Tags: Hard, Idea, Write

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.

Tags: Between, Book, Lucky

I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

Tags: Big, Bit, Getting


Tags: Small, Women, Writing

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.

Tags: Great, Time, Winning

If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.

Tags: Choice, Days, Time

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

Tags: Able, Memories, Someday

The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.

Tags: Another, Between, Big

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

Tags: Control, Her, Move

If you want to compete in bioinformatics, first you need to compete for really smart people. You need really smart people who understand how to manipulate nanomolecules.

Tags: Manipulate, Smart, Understand


Tags: Good, Health, Legal

The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still have the mine. You still have oil wells. You can always rebuild. In a knowledge economy, if you make a mistake, you're in trouble.

Tags: Business, Knowledge, Mistakes

We have to make sure that when we make choices as a society, people understand the choices, agree with them, and are behind them. Otherwise, the system is going to fall apart.

Tags: Society, Sure, Understand