Sun Quotes by Edna O'Brien

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

— Edna O'Brien

You have to be lonely to be a writer

— Edna O'Brien

I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with…

— Edna O'Brien

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

— Edna O'Brien

We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love.

— Edna O'Brien

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

— Edna O'Brien

Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.

— Edna O'Brien

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.

— Edna O'Brien

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

— Edna O'Brien

“A healer! The beauty of the word a balm. In a mounting astonishment she hears how this man heals with his own blood, pricks…

— Edna O'Brien

“If I could feel like myself I’d thank God but I don’t feel and never will.”

— Edna O'Brien

...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too,…

— Edna O'Brien