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I am hugely insecure and desperate to be loved and I want my reader to adore me, to a disturbing, stalkerish degree.

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I've been haunting bookshops and hiding behind display signs of TV chefs (Nigella is excellent to hide behind as she has a huge arse) as I spy on the short fiction section and see if anyone's tempted by my sweet bait. I've also been counting how many copies of the book are left in shops, and I've been covering other upcoming authors' books with mine.

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I won't be happy until I'm up there, receiving the Nobel Prize.

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A prize with money attached to it has a lot of prestige.

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Art is a hideously painful business, you know. Pity me! Or at least buy me a drink.

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Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry

Born: 1969 (age 56)
Bio: Kevin Barry is an Irish writer. He is the author of two collections of short stories, and the novel City of Bohane, which was the winner of the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His 2015 novel Beatlebone won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize.

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