Edna O'Brien Quotes
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen,...
Show MoreWhen something has been perfect there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.
Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or ...
Show MoreIf we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is lik...
Show MoreIt is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic abs...
Show MoreDarkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore...
Show MoreLove . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither...
Show MoreIf the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin
My friends I tell you this, we are a jolly group but put us in uniform and all that change. In war I...
Show MoreThe words ran away with me.
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the he...
Show MoreI was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.
In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the d...
Show MoreIn a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.
