Katriona O'Sullivan

Maybe I could.

I'm not saying that I couldn't be.

Then maybe that's something that I never am.

I have I ever yet.

The idea of being literary feels a little bit beyond my capacity right now.

You know, there's people that just live in that space and they don't necessarily sell a lot of books.

They win prizes.

Maybe they don't sell books.

Or a lot of books like I have.

So they would look at me and say, oh, my God, she sold, you know, thousands and thousands of books.

She's amazing.

Yes, exactly.

So Patricia Scanlon was like my idol when I was younger.

Like she wrote women's books, chick lit books.

But my thing is read what you like at the end of the day.

Read what you like and enjoy what it is that you like.

We shouldn't be judging people.

But it is very much the case when you're in the writing world that that happens and you hear the conversation, especially at book festivals.

But you hear it and you also hear writers talk about themselves in that way.

Like I went to Anna McCarrick recently, which is an artist's retreat.