“That was really fun for me that year that I was unemployed…I loved that I could wander around Dublin with a notebook and see the city through these fresh eyes, quite childlike eyes…see it as a more magical place.” Caitriona Lally on the creation of her novel – Eggshells. “I wanted to try and examine normal enough situations but through the eyes of somebody who wouldn’t understand them as normal.”
There’s something really joyful about just spilling everything from your brain onto the page… It’s a really hopeful way of writing.
If you can’t be a pencil to write anyone’s happiness then try to be an eraser to remove their sadness.
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