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. Sally Rooney More Quotes by Sally Rooney More Quotes From Sally Rooney If you look at the history of the letter in the novel, small changes in the British postal service became really significant because of how quickly people are suddenly able to communicate, and letters actually arrive at the intended time, and they arrive to the correct recipient. All of this is really important to a plot. Sally Rooney service you time history 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. Sally Rooney good you pain relationship You can spend hours editing an email but send it as if you wrote it in a minute. Sally Rooney minute you email editing 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 search me aesthetic nostalgia A lot of the time, I read something I've written, and I think, 'Well, that's competent. It's not exactly breaking any boundaries. It's not exactly transgressive. It's just a bunch of fake people in a room talking to each other. But maybe there's a value to that.' Sally Rooney value fake time people I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings. Sally Rooney i-am feeling me important 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 wishes you christmas window Dialogue is the most fun to write. It's kind of like a tennis match. Sally Rooney like tennis dialogue fun The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics, the novel is not politically neutral; it has been a participant in history all along. Sally Rooney great tradition philosophy history 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 serious love people art 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 you power struggle work There are a lot of people who probably enjoyed 'Conversations with Friends' who are part of the system that is actively exploiting other people's labour. I am sure there are landlords who read it and thought it was a great read. Am I happy that I have given those people 10 hours of distraction? Not really! Sally Rooney i-am great happy people I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another. Sally Rooney find myself writing way I don't really believe in the idea of the individual. Sally Rooney idea really individual believe 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. Sally Rooney you experience nature life I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature. Sally Rooney comfortable literature culture art I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it. Sally Rooney quite get how understand 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 partner leave go house I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail. Sally Rooney fail well things two I don't think of myself as busy because I don't even have to get dressed most days. Sally Rooney dressed myself think busy
