Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
From Leon Uris
It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find.
I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.
I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
I was a terrible English student.
English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.
Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.
So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
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