AND FOR A CERTAIN TYPE OF WRITER YOU NEED TO TAKE YOURSELF WAY TOO SERIOUSLY: Colm Tóibín: you have to be a terrible monster to write. Ladies and gentlemen, after being a published author for … twelve years I’ve discovered this:  When a supposedly working writer tells you something like he writes only long hand on notebooks, he’s selling you something and it ain’t his writing.  Also note his courage in going after early Christianity…  I mean, we all know they behead people who insult their prophet right?  What?  They don’t?  Uh…