I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail. Sally Rooney Read Quote
I don’t think of myself as busy because I don’t even have to get dressed most days. Sally Rooney Read Quote
Though I have no real understanding of the mechanics of football, and can only nod along helplessly at complex post-match analyses, I do enjoy watching people who are enormously good at something doing that thing very well. Sally Rooney Read Quote
When I’m writing something, everything falls into place. When I’m not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there’s nowhere to put it all. Sally Rooney Read Quote
A lot of the time, I read something I’ve written, and I think, ‘Well, that’s competent. It’s not exactly breaking any boundaries. It’s not exactly transgressive. It’s just a bunch of fake people in a room talking to each other. But maybe there’s a value to that.’ Sally Rooney Read Quote
It’s so difficult to be conscious of a development of a style. You find yourself writing in a certain style, and the analysis of how you came to it can only ever be applied retroactively. You’re never conscious of why you’re producing it. Sally Rooney Read Quote
Class is something that I think seriously about and try to organise my politics around. I think there are lots of novels that don’t really engage with questions of class at all, and they get less conversation about issues of social privilege than I do. But it’s better to try and talk about it and maybe fail. Sally Rooney Read Quote
