70 quotes found
Author · Irish · 1945
Irish author (born 1945)
“All the talk now is of freedom and pride (pride!), but these young hotheads in their pink bell-bottoms, clamouring for the right to do it in the streets if they feel like it, do not seem to appreci...”
“Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories.”
“If you look at practically anyone - I mean, I find this more and more - the more you look at people the more you find that they've actually manufactured themselves. People whose names that you know...”
“Ambiguity is the essence of Irish writing, I think.”
“The older I get, the more confused I get. I used to think that age would bring wisdom. It doesn't, it just brings confusion. But I find that this confusion is artistically useful. It's a kind of pr...”
“Wodehouse is very interesting. There must be all kinds of darknesses in that man's life.”
“We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.”
“I feel that over the past 15 years, there has been a steady move toward more populist work. I do feel - and of course I'm completely biased - that this year was a return to the better days of the 8...”
“I'm very much against the notion of the Great Man, the Great Figure who is telling us all how to behave. Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.”
“Once in the 1930s, the Inland Revenue did an investigation into Yeats's tax returns because they could not believe someone so famous could have such small sales. One should never allow oneself to b...”
