It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
Colm ToibinI think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
Colm ToibinWriting tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.
Colm ToibinI wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.
Colm Toibin