Edna OBrien Quotes (16 Quotes)


    I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

    I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

    Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

    When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.



    I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

    Inebriations of love, shadows of love, fantasies of love, but never yet the one true love

    Writers live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

    Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

    I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

    My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.

    In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'

    There is something about holding on to things that I find therapeutic.

    The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

    In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.

    Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.


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