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.

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.

I like naming characters.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

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

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.

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