Roger Boylan interview

This interview with Roger Boylan was first published in March 2006. To find out even more about the author, you must visit our Roger Boylan page.

Where were you born and raised?
My roots are in the Greater New York area, I was raised there and in Ireland and Switzerland.

What was it that first got you into writing and when did you start writing?

Reading got me wanting to write. I started when I was ten.

Which writers have influenced you the most?

Joyce, Beckett, Flann O’Brien, Nabokov, Maupassant, Dostoevsky.

Where do you stand on the nature v. nurture debate? Were you born a writer, or were there factors in your environment that enabled you to become a writer?

Born.

There are a lot of courses teaching creative writing nowadays, but do you think that good writing can be taught?

No, but bad writing can be discouraged.

Do you have any short stories or poems published online? (If so, please provide the URLs):

No, but there are excerpts from my novels on the amazon.com website. .

What kind of things do you write?

Novels ("Killoyle", "The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad"), stories, reviews.

What, for you, is the best piece of prose that you have ever written?

My latest novel "The Adorations".

What are you working on now?

A memoir and a detective novel.

What is your writing day like?

Intermittent and clandestine.

Where would you like to be in 10 years’ time?

Switzerland.

What’s the most exciting thing about writing for you?

Being able to escape into the created world.

What’s the most frustrating thing about writing for you?

Its slowness.

What’s the best piece of feedback that you’ve had from your audience?

Critical comparison of my work to that of Joyce.

Do you write for a particular audience, or is your first priority to satisfy your own creativity?

An audience of like-minded readers.

Do you have a homepage? If so, what’s the URL?

http://www.logopoeia.com/killoyle/index.html

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