Writer Quotes by Kevin Barry

Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the tablets of…

— Kevin Barry

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

— Kevin Barry

I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two.…

— Kevin Barry

“rabid tush patrol”

— Kevin Barry

It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my life compared…

— Kevin Barry

I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be…

— Kevin Barry

I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life…

— Kevin Barry

The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets…

— Kevin Barry

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

— Kevin Barry

“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must…

— Kevin Barry

The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a…

— Kevin Barry

I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area…

— Kevin Barry

I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself from the…

— Kevin Barry

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

— Kevin Barry

'City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script.

— Kevin Barry