Claire Keegan

For her to come here and court an Irishman and almost marry him was for me an opportunity to show what our misogyny looked like to an outsider.

There was a very small library and I sat there every day and read.

And it saved me.

How are you doers?

Lovely to meet you.

Oh, that's lovely.

That's great.

I'm so pleased.

Oh, good, good, good.

I do.

I love teaching.

Yes, I think drama is overrated and can be terribly dull.

And if you don't believe me, just go off for a long weekend with a dramatic personality, and you'll be sorry that you have Monday off.

I think all good fiction is drawn to tension, and that tension and drama don't actually like each other.

I think if they were at a party...

And tension was there, and so drama coming in, tension would want to leave.

Because tension is actually fed by loss.

And a central character is somebody who's losing.

And when we get tense, we get tense because we are either losing or are afraid of losing something.

And that is actually the page-turning quality in writing.