Sally Rooney

One thing debating did was bring me in contact with a whole social world that I had never experienced before. It's sort…

— Sally Rooney

“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.”

— Sally Rooney

I don't think of myself as busy because I don't even have to get dressed most days.

— Sally Rooney

What does it mean to have a healthy relationship? It's such a strangely clinical way of talking about interpersonal dynamics, like you…

— Sally Rooney

I'm not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it's nice…

— Sally Rooney

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

— Sally Rooney

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

— Sally Rooney

The window in which it's acceptable to listen to Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 record 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas' is short, so…

— Sally Rooney

For me, watching Mohamed Salah play football is not unlike staring up at the stars and contemplating the vastness of the universe:…

— Sally Rooney

Writing in the first person, you immediately open yourself up to the idea that there's a connection between you and the narrator.

— Sally Rooney

You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists…

— Sally Rooney

Class is something that I think seriously about and try to organise my politics around. I think there are lots of novels…

— Sally Rooney

I am not trying to speak for anyone else, never mind an entire generation. I don't even know what that means.

— Sally Rooney

“You think everyone you like is special, she said. I'm just a normal person. When you get to like someone, you make…

— Sally Rooney

When I read interviews with people like Kevin Barry or Colin Barrett, who I hugely admire, they don't really seem to come…

— Sally Rooney

I was on the Internet a lot during my teenage years, and I think the influence of that kind of textuality on…

— Sally Rooney

What I really like about Woody Allen's films is that there's a real investment in personal relationships. There is the idea that…

— Sally Rooney

I think it's best for me to kind of just plough on doing whatever interests me, just following my own whims, because…

— Sally Rooney

I hate Yeats! A lot of his poems are not very good, but some are obviously okay. But how has he become…

— Sally Rooney

I thought school was immensely boring, and as a teenager, I often found social life quite mystifying... I was not someone to…

— Sally Rooney

When I was in Trinity, at least for the first couple of years, I didn't really interact with anyone who wasn't in…

— Sally Rooney

“He can't help Marianne, no matter what he does. There's something frightening about her, some huge emptiness in the pit of her…

— Sally Rooney

“Were they aware, in the intensity of their embrace, of something slightly ridiculous about this tableau, something almost comical, as someone nearby…

— Sally Rooney

The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics,…

— Sally Rooney