It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

My parents were sixty years married.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

I wasn't even aware of the Year of the Family. I couldn't give a toss. These things - the year of the family, the year of the three-legged dog. I think it's all trash.

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, the - Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore, although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.