Try to be accurate about stuff.

I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead

The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.