Kevin Barry

I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by the Irish greys and drizzle. I love the cities of the Spanish interior.

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a few sentences into a notebook.

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.