Kate Thompson
Kate Thompson
NationalityIrish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 November 1959
CountryIreland
difficult dreaming time work
If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.
bothered english good liked mad music
I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.
civil gave
I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
joined met north
I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.
dad
I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.
awful telling
I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.