“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.”
Ciaran Carson“I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen's University set, in the 1970s and '80s - you know, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Ciaran Carson - that was probably the finest body of work since the Gaelic renaissance, up there with the work of Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory.”
Adrian McKinty“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.”
Ciaran Carson, Fishing for Amber