I don't think of myself as busy because I don't even have to get dressed most days.
— Sally Rooney
Dialogue is the most fun to write. It's kind of like a tennis match.
I'm not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it's nice to be nominated.
I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.
I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.
What does it mean to have a healthy relationship? It's such a strangely clinical way of talking about interpersonal dynamics, like you can do a white blood cell count and say, 'No, it's not looking good for that one.' It's impossible to have a loving relationship in which you never cause pain and no pain ever is caused to you.
I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.
I don't really believe in the idea of the individual.
I'm very introverted. Easily a few days could go by where I would not really leave the house or talk to anybody other than my partner.
I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.
You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists of or how people really feel and experience life are, at their base, political ideas.
I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.
