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
grew creatures
Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.
love-is awful done
I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.
heart self secret
Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she coveted for herself and recognized instantly in others. Fruits had it, the very heart of, say, a cherry, where the true worth and flavor lay. Some of course were flawed or hollow in there. Many, in fact.
august wicked months
August is a wicked month.
tuning want forks
I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.
writing thieves littles
For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.
sometimes recalls one-word
Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.
mean writing disturbed
Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.
voice knows
... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?
mistake exit knows
I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.
falling-in-love spring differences
When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season ...
promiscuity
Promiscuity is the death of love.
talking two evening
Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.
shadow shadow-of-love inebriation
shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.