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 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.

Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

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

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.