Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

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

I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

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.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

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