I Was A Very Quiet Child, Quite

With The Adult Ones, I Feel I Need To Get As Deep Inside The Psychology Of A Character As I Can, And That Needs To Be First-person. In The Children's Books, I Feel I Need Some Distance. I Don't Want To Be The Nine-year-old At The Center Of The Story. I Need To Have Some Type Of Narrative Voice.

...despite The Mayhem That Followed, Bruno Found That He Was Still Holding Shmuel's Hand In His Own And Nothing In The World Would Have Persuaded Him To Let Go.

. . .only The Victims And Survivors Can Truly Comprehend The Awfulness Of That Time And Place; The Rest Of Us Live On The Other Side Of The Fence, Staring Through From Our Own Comfortable Place, Trying In Our Own Clumsy Ways To Make Sense Of It All.

War Today Is Such A More Visible Thing. We See It On Television, On Cnn. In 1914, War Was A Concept.

It's Not Easy Making A Living As A Writer, And For Many Years I Worked At A Waterstones In Dublin. It Was A Good Environment For An Aspiring Writer, With Lots Of Events And Authors Appearing.