Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brienis an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short story writer. Philip Roth has described her "the most gifted woman now writing in English", while former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has cited her as "one of the great creative writers of her generation."...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 December 1932
CountryIreland
what-matters matter imaginative
What matters is the imaginative truth.
perfect trying tendencies
When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.
mother jesus hate
Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.
heart dark fit
After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.
kissing cities vastness
Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the seashore, footprint after footprint of trodden sand, and somehow the kiss or the spoken covenant gets lost in the vastness and indifference of nature. In a city there are places to remind us of what has been.
running responsibility world
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.
love-is two giving
She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.
book home men
There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.
goodbye money-talks
Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.
half should
I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.
writing heart cutting
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.
light darkness doe
Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.
soul mind hotel
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
childhood trying alive
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.