The real writers are tenacious creatures, and they found a way long before there were writers workshops and creative writing courses in the universit… - Philip Ó Ceallaigh

I think if you've got something to say and you can say it with less, that's the way to go.

I don't want to become the kind of writer who's putting out a book every two years. Money is not my primary concern. I've been broke before and I'll do it again.

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.