Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.

Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.

You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

If you sort of see yourself writing into a space that you don't always recognize, you sometimes learn things that you knew, but weren't entirely aware of. It's very liberating for a writer to go into a space where she or he has not gone before, because, instead of being a tourist, you're like an explorer now, and you're sort of lost in this new idea.