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Open Page with Ryan O'Neill

September 2018, no. 404

Open Page with Ryan O'Neill

September 2018, no. 404

Ryan ONeill credit Peter MarkoRyan O'Neill (photograph by Peter Marko)Why do you write?

I write because at the moment no one else is writing the kinds of books I want to read, and so I have to write them. Of course, by the time I have written them I never want to look at them again.

Are you a vivid dreamer?

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. But this is the exception. Most often I don’t remember my dreams, and when I do they are nothing like the symbolic and character-defining visions experienced by characters in novels, but simply disjointed nonsense.

Where are you happiest?