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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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It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.
George F. Kennan

Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry

Born: 1969 (age 57)
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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