- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.
- Be Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like naming characters.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.
- Desk
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- Nov 07, 2020