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.

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

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.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

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

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.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.