When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

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.

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.

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

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