Writing For My Life
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Cork, Ireland |
| Introduction | I write. Really. It's hard work too, contrary to what most people seem to think. I write, and rewrite, and keep on doing that, even when the sun is shining, even when the rejections are stacked up around me. I admit it: I have a problem. |
| Interests | music, reading, football (watching...), coming up with convincing lies... |
| Favorite movies | The Godfather, Cool Hand Luke, The Searchers, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Field, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Jaws, and anything else that might possibly tickle my particularly warped sense of fancy ... |
| Favorite music | Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Prine, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, the Colleys, Kris Kristofferson, Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Seger, Billy Joel, Guy Clark etc. People who write songs with words that resonate ... |
| Favorite books | The books of Hemingway, Steinbeck, Updike, Ray Bradbury, Tim O'Brien, Alistair MacLeod, Anne Tyler, John le Carre, Stephen King, Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy, and more ... |