I meet people who tell me things like, ‘I read your book in… - Philip Ó Ceallaigh

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I meet people who tell me things like, ‘I read your book in two days’. Please don’t do that. These things take me years to write. Slow down. Everything you read, slow down. Reading is our great act of resistance in this age of speed and carelessness.

Philip Ó Ceallaigh

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About Philip Ó Ceallaigh

Philip Ó Ceallaigh (born March 23, 1968) is an Irish short story writer living in Bucharest.

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I was kind of solitary. I'd spend a lot of time on my own, reading books. I didn't integrate very well.

I called the boss a ‘fucker’ one day – not to his face, but it got back to him – so that was the end.

I used to write in the Rathmines public library. I was on the dole and living in a bedsit down the road. It was too cold to write at home. I had one of those meters that you had to put 50p into. So I'd go down the library every morning and after lunch to scribble stuff in longhand in the study room there.

I meet people who tell me things like, ‘I read your book in two days’. Please don’t do that. These things take me years to write. Slow down. Everythi… - Philip Ó Ceallaigh

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