Mike McCormack

thumb|Mike McCormack in 2017 Mike McCormack (born 1965) is an Irish novelist and short story writer. Quotes You always think that if you're going to spend seven years on a book, it should be Gravity's Rainbow or Ulysses or something, but mine is just a 200-page book that took a long time. McKeon, Belinda. Metaphysics gets a Mayo accent, The Irish Times (13 May 2005) This is going to sound really childish, but I've been intrigued by Romania ever since the 1976 Olympics, when Nadia Comăneci, the little gymnast, scored a perfect 10. And I thought any country that gave that to the world had to be wonderful, so I read up a lot on it. When the 1989 revolutions broke out, I remember cheering them on. They were the last ones to make a bid for freedom, and it was the bloodiest and the most spectacular of the revolutions. It was almost French in its drama, like the French Revolution. McKeon, Belinda. Metaphysics gets a Mayo accent, The Irish Times (13 May 2005) I nearly went fucking crazy crazy. Notes [from a Coma] marked a sort of natural breakdown with Jonathan Cape. The book got a good critical response but it didn't too well. So publishers look at you then and think, okay, he writes good books but . . . If you have that experimental twist, you make things hard for yourself. So for those five years, I couldn't give my work away. It was tough on me and for people around me. But as my wife Maeve said to me, it isn't my job to get published . . . it is my job to write. Taking risks, challenging publishers, and earning readers, The Irish Times (10 April 2013) External links Mike McCormack (writer) Category:Living people Category:Short story writers from Ireland Category:Novelists from Ireland