I'm no good at dinner parties. I feel very uneasy at them. - Dermot Healy

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer – reading is so much a part of it.

Without the reader there would be no writer.

<nowiki>[Kafka]</nowiki> taught me a lot about the normal and the abnormal, and the distance between them. [...] He's out there by himself. You get the jump in the feet when you read certain passages by him. That's the mark of truly great writing. It gives you the jump in the feet.