Rome Writing Workshops

"I’m an Olympic-standard eavesdropper. I also seem to have kind of a trusting face because people come to me all the time on trains and planes and boats and start unloading the craziest most glorious stuff that you could never make up. What I do a lot as well is I look at the way people are speaking. Watching them as they speak is very interesting because often, in fiction, dialogue on the page looks like two people taking turns, but it’s never like that in life: in life, there’s always a talker and a listener."
Kevin Barry, whose novel, "Night Boat to Tangier," was longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize.