Writer Quotes by Frank McCourt

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for…

— Frank McCourt

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos,…

— Frank McCourt

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

— Frank McCourt

Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.

— Frank McCourt

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

— Frank McCourt

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back,…

— Frank McCourt

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

— Frank McCourt

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

— Frank McCourt

A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a…

— Frank McCourt

“When the dark clouds flutter like bats in my head I wish I could open a window and release them.”

— Frank McCourt

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.

— Frank McCourt

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

— Frank McCourt

Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

— Frank McCourt

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone…

— Frank McCourt

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So…

— Frank McCourt