Sally Rooney

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

“I lay there in the bath not thinking, not doing anything. After a few seconds, I heard her open the front door,…

— Sally Rooney

There are a lot of people who probably enjoyed 'Conversations with Friends' who are part of the system that is actively exploiting…

— Sally Rooney

I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.

— Sally Rooney

When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put…

— Sally Rooney

I try to keep my sentences quite pared back. What I really want to do is observe people's relationships and interactions. I…

— Sally Rooney

“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone,…

— Sally Rooney

“I thought about all the things I had never told Nick about myself, and I started to feel better.”

— Sally Rooney

“All these people are suffering without the tools to end their own suffering. And we who have the tools refuse to do…

— Sally Rooney

I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.

— Sally Rooney

I'm very introverted. Easily a few days could go by where I would not really leave the house or talk to anybody…

— Sally Rooney

I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.

— Sally Rooney

Dialogue is the most fun to write. It's kind of like a tennis match.

— Sally Rooney

I don't really believe in the idea of the individual.

— Sally Rooney

It annoys me when contemporary films and television shows create artificial tensions that could easily be resolved by a quick email or…

— Sally Rooney

I'm not writing to encourage people to read my book or even books in general. That's not my job. My job is…

— Sally Rooney

We're not always the most insightful about ourselves.

— Sally Rooney

I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.

— Sally Rooney

You can spend hours editing an email but send it as if you wrote it in a minute.

— Sally Rooney

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside…

— Sally Rooney

I definitely don't aspire to writing that's 'timeless,' whatever that means.

— Sally Rooney

I'm only interested in writing about relationships.

— Sally Rooney

A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don't know.

— Sally Rooney

The idea for 'Conversations with Friends' - two college students who befriend a married couple - struck me at first as a…

— Sally Rooney

I have no very sophisticated understanding of literary forms. Short stories are shorter than novels, and poems are typically shorter than either,…

— Sally Rooney