"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."

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"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."

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"You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing."

Power

"So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school."

Being

"I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers."

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"Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south."

Society

"And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind."

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"But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school."

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"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."

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"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."

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"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."

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"My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his."

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