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The window in which it's acceptable to listen to Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 record 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas' is short, so I keep it in heavy rotation throughout the festive season.
- Sally Rooney
#Christmas
#Festive
#Heavy
#Short
#Window
When I read interviews with people like Kevin Barry or Colin Barrett, who I hugely admire, they don't really seem to come up against the question of likeability even though their characters, in some instances, are really horrible.
- Sally Rooney
#Admire
#Against
#People
#Question
#Up
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
#Development
#Difficult
#Style
#Yourself
I don't think of myself as busy because I don't even have to get dressed most days.
- Sally Rooney
#Because
#Busy
#Days
#Myself
#Think
I think my characters are all fairly fundamentally decent, even if they have negative characteristics.
- Sally Rooney
#Decent
#Even
#I Think
#Negative
#Think
One thing debating did was bring me in contact with a whole social world that I had never experienced before. It's sort of a very international, very niche hobby.
- Sally Rooney
#Hobby
#Me
#Never
#Social
#World
A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don't know.
- Sally Rooney
#Did
#Help
#Know
#Me
#People
There are a lot of people who probably enjoyed 'Conversations with Friends' who are part of the system that is actively exploiting other people's labour. I am sure there are landlords who read it and thought it was a great read. Am I happy that I have given those people 10 hours of distraction? Not really!
- Sally Rooney
#Great
#Happy
#I Am
#People
#System
I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.
- Sally Rooney
#Feelings
#I Am
#Important
#Me
#Person
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
#Influence
#Internet
#Lot
#Think
#Writing
In my fiction, I pursue this idea of intimacy, but also - philosophically, politically - I just feel like that's the interesting question for me. How much can we share with other people? I'm not interested in human individuality; I don't even know what that means.
- Sally Rooney
#Feel
#Human
#Know
#Me
#People
I'm very introverted. Easily a few days could go by where I would not really leave the house or talk to anybody other than my partner.
- Sally Rooney
#Go
#House
#Leave
#Partner
#Talk
I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.
- Sally Rooney
#Rather
#Things
#Two
#Well
#Would
I hate Yeats! A lot of his poems are not very good, but some are obviously okay. But how has he become this sort of emblem of literary Irishness when he was this horrible man? He was a huge fan of Mussolini. He was really into fascism. He believed deeply in the idea of a 'noble class' who are superior by birth to the plebs.
- Sally Rooney
#Birth
#Good
#Hate
#Man
#Noble
I like Christianity. I'm a fan of Jesus and his whole philosophy but not the social teaching aspects of it, of course.
- Sally Rooney
#Christianity
#Fan
#Philosophy
#Social
The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics, the novel is not politically neutral; it has been a participant in history all along.
- Sally Rooney
#Development
#Great
#History
#Tradition
Dialogue is the most fun to write. It's kind of like a tennis match.
- Sally Rooney
#Dialogue
#Fun
#Like
#Match
#Tennis
For me, watching Mohamed Salah play football is not unlike staring up at the stars and contemplating the vastness of the universe: it makes my own life seem nice and small.
- Sally Rooney
#Football
#Life
#Me
#Stars
#Universe
What I really like about Woody Allen's films is that there's a real investment in personal relationships. There is the idea that this is a serious concern worth making serious art about - how we love other people and how we can negotiate our relationships with them.
- Sally Rooney
#Art
#Love
#People
#Real
#Serious
As a reader with next to no knowledge of classical mythology, I approached 'The Aeneid' just as I would a contemporary poem or novel - and, despite my ignorance, I was rewarded with a rich and affecting portrait of, among other things, the memorably doomed love affair between Aeneas and Dido.
- Sally Rooney
#Ignorance
#Knowledge
#Love
#Portrait
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
#Communication
#Find
#Language
#Way
I don't have any answers as to whether the Internet is a good or a bad thing, but it's certainly an important thing for the novel because novels are so much about communication, and when communication changes, the novel has to change.
- Sally Rooney
#Change
#Communication
#Good
#Internet
You can spend hours editing an email but send it as if you wrote it in a minute.
- Sally Rooney
#Editing
#Email
#Minute
#Send
#Spend
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