It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whipping it to cheap perfume, each word blown to aneurysm. — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye. — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone. — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is blood in Mr. Ervine's 'Carson'; he knows nothing about Sir Edward Carson, of course, but his teeth are firmly fixed in the… — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London,… — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have… — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come. — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when… — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated… — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore. — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whipping… — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality. — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image