![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "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." "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 do not write for an audience." "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 essentially write for myself." "I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps." "I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish." "I was a terrible English student." "I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer." "It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find." "My first book was rejected nine times. ![]()
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