My parents were sixty years married.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths.

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

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

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.