I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

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.

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.