When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.
When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.
Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.