Interviews & Posts Tagged ' Ireland '

• April, 2009 The Alchemy of Composition: Jamie O’Neill’s Literary Magic

  Tags: accents, Easter Uprising, fiction, gay, Ireland
  Published in Interviews

  

  “When you’re writing you’re that bird on the wing, you’re soaring and you’re plummeting but you’re not telling the wings to do anything. When you’re describing afterwards what’s happened you’re applying logic to something that really is intuitive. You’re talking about ailerons and that sort of thing, like you’re moving an airplane rather than the eagle.”