33 Sally Rooney Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sally Rooney

Irish Author

Born: 1991

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Related authors: Anne Enright C. S. Lewis Frank Harris Frank McCourt Iris Murdoch Kevin Barry Os Guinness Rebecca West

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

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It annoys me when contemporary films and television shows create artificial tensions that could easily be resolved by a quick email or the use of a search engine. 'La La Land' was guilty of this several times, as well as a more generalised aesthetic nostalgia. Sally Rooney

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The window in which it's acceptable to listen to Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 record 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas' is short, so I keep it in heavy rotation throughout the festive season. Sally Rooney

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

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What I really like about Woody Allen's films is that there's a real investment in personal relationships. There is the idea that this is a serious concern worth making serious art about - how we love other people and how we can negotiate our relationships with them. Sally Rooney

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My friendships all tend to be quite steady, so it's really hard to novelise that stuff because it's just boring. I mean, there's interesting conversations, but there's no power struggle. And you can't work with equilibrium; you have to work with something that's just off and then observe how it tries to correct itself. Sally Rooney

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I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another. Sally Rooney

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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. Sally Rooney

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

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The idea for 'Conversations with Friends' - two college students who befriend a married couple - struck me at first as a concept for a short story. I started to write it under the title 'Melissa,' and eventually, it got too long. Sally Rooney

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It's so difficult to be conscious of a development of a style. You find yourself writing in a certain style, and the analysis of how you came to it can only ever be applied retroactively. You're never conscious of why you're producing it. Sally Rooney

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Everyone has a life. I haven't had a particularly interesting one. Sally Rooney

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I'm only interested in writing about relationships. Sally Rooney

Writing Relationships About Only Interested

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

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I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value in carrying out that task, however limited. Sally Rooney

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I don't have any answers as to whether the Internet is a good or a bad thing, but it's certainly an important thing for the novel because novels are so much about communication, and when communication changes, the novel has to change. Sally Rooney

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I think my characters are all fairly fundamentally decent, even if they have negative characteristics. Sally Rooney

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When I read interviews with people like Kevin Barry or Colin Barrett, who I hugely admire, they don't really seem to come up against the question of likeability even though their characters, in some instances, are really horrible. Sally Rooney

In everything I do, my principal inspiration is the 1996 Belle & Sebastian album 'If You're Feeling Sinister.' Sally Rooney

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Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sally Rooney

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