I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels. Sally Rooney Read Quote
I was on the Internet a lot during my teenage years, and I think the influence of that kind of textuality on my writing has been pretty significant. Sally Rooney Read Quote
Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow – think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sally Rooney Read Quote
A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don’t know. Sally Rooney Read Quote
I am not trying to speak for anyone else, never mind an entire generation. I don’t even know what that means. Sally Rooney Read Quote
I started writing ‘Normal People’ not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn’t really have any hang ups about, ‘Oh, I can’t do this again. I’ve done this already.’ It was just a project I was working on for my own amusement. Sally Rooney Read Quote
I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world. Sally Rooney Read Quote
I think it’s best for me to kind of just plough on doing whatever interests me, just following my own whims, because otherwise, I would think, ‘Oh well, I have to write something now that really represents my generation or that really represents young Irish people.’ Sally Rooney Read Quote
My friendships all tend to be quite steady, so it’s really hard to novelise that stuff because it’s just boring. I mean, there’s interesting conversations, but there’s no power struggle. And you can’t work with equilibrium; you have to work with something that’s just off and then observe how it tries to correct itself. Sally Rooney Read Quote
I thought school was immensely boring, and as a teenager, I often found social life quite mystifying… I was not someone to whom it came easily to be charming. Sally Rooney Read Quote
