Do You See The Irony At All,

I Am Frustrated By Celebrities Who Decide To Write Children's Books Because They Think It's Easy. That Drives Me Crazy. It's Frustrating Because It's Unfair To Children. Because They'll Get A Lot Of Attention, They'll Get A Lot Of Marketing Budget And So On Just Because They're A Celebrity - The Madonnas, The Ricky Gervaises, The Russell Brands.

I Don't Buy Into The Idea That An Irish Writer Should Write About Ireland, Or A Gay Writer Should Write About Being Gay. But When I Found The Right Story, I Saw It As An Opportunity To Write About Being A Teenager And Being Gay. Most People, Whether You're Gay Or Straight Or Whatever, Have Experienced That Relationship Where One Person Is Much More Interested Than The Other.

Unless You're Very Boring, I Think Most People Who've Lived Long Enough Have Something In Their Past Which Will Never Go Away. As A Writer, My Interest Has Become In Writing About Much More Emotional, Personal Topics. I'm Trying To Reach Into Subjects I Have Never Written About Before.

I Think I'm Just Breathing, That's All. And There's A Difference Between Breathing And Being Alive.

And I Have Tried To Forget Him, I Have Tried To Convince Myself That It Was Just One Of Those Things, But It’s Difficult To Do That When My Body Is Standing Here, Eight Feet Deep In The Earth Of Northern France, While My Heart Remains By A Stream In A Clearing In England Where I Left It Weeks Ago.