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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
- Depend
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- Nov 07, 2020
With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
- Both Worlds
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donna Tartt blows me away - that impeccable writing, so rich you could eat it and so luminous that it lights up the whole room, and the way she brings her characters to life so completely and in such fine detail that you know them as intimately as your dearest friends.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big admirer of Daniel Woodrell for his beautiful, precise, sparse prose - I don't do succinct well, so I'm in awe of writers who do.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
In TV writing, Armando Iannucci's satire 'The Thick of It' is brilliant - equal parts hysterically funny, terrifyingly believable, and Oh-my-God-I-can't-believe-he-actually-said-that - and it's got the most satisfyingly creative insults ever.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always been fascinated by archaeology; it was my original career plan as a kid.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Broken Harbour,' a third of the way through, I worked it out and had to go back and bloody rewrite.
- Fascinate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been fascinated by mysteries for as long as I can remember. Real, fictional, solved, unsolved, I don't care; they all fascinate me. I think that's a core human trait.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most animals are pragmatic about mysteries: If they run across something they don't understand, all they care about is whether it's edible and whether it's dangerous. Humans, on the other hand, are drawn to the mystery for its own sake.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's OK to screw up. For me, this was the big revelation when I was writing my first book, 'In the Woods': I could get it wrong as many times as I needed to.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong - so your characters can't, either.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't be scared of 'said.' Writers sometimes go looking for alternatives because they worry that 'he said' and 'she said' will feel repetitive if they're used all the time, but I swear, they won't.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read one book where the characters never said anything; instead, they spent all their time grunting and bleating and hissing and cooing and growling and chirping and... It was like a menagerie in there. After a while, I wasn't even taking in the rest of the book, because that was all I could see: the dialogue tags.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember reading about the Marie Celeste when I was a kid and becoming obsessed with what happened.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I reread a lot. I must have read 'The Once and Future King,' 'Watership Down' and Mary Renault's 'Theseus' books at least a dozen times each.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of pure volume, I probably read more psychological mystery and historical true crime than anything else.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like books like 'The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,' where the investigation of a crime becomes a way into an exploration of the society where the crime took place.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has ways in which they've been lucky in life, and everybody also has ways in which they've definitely rolled snake eyes.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a pretty happy, loved childhood.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020