All writers all people have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.
All writers all people have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of the mind. Genius is spiritual greed.
I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.
The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent but there is talent in the tongues.
I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories