Irish Novelist Sally Rooney:
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2024/09/sally-rooney-interview-were-trapped-cultural-moment
Death is there, because death is there in life – it’s the overhanging question, and maybe as my characters get older and I get older, those questions become more alive for them and more experientially lived in, rather than just abstract and philosophical. I think ultimately, as a writer, you can’t be interested in writing about life if you’re not conscious of death as being the inevitable, and the thing that makes life precious.
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2024/09/sally-rooney-interview-were-trapped-cultural-moment
Death is there, because death is there in life – it’s the overhanging question, and maybe as my characters get older and I get older, those questions become more alive for them and more experientially lived in, rather than just abstract and philosophical. I think ultimately, as a writer, you can’t be interested in writing about life if you’re not conscious of death as being the inevitable, and the thing that makes life precious.