4 Quotes by Ciarán Carson

There are three points about stories: if told, they like to be heard; if heard, they like to be taken in; and if taken in, they like to be told.

Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.

How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say what’s in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, it’s wrong, isn’t it?

There’s a whole language out there, and one’s role as a writer is to stumble around in it.