All Edna O'Brien Quotes
- Writing is like carrying a fetus. Carrying
- What matters is the imaginative truth. Imaginative
- When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it. Been
- The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. Armed
- I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the… Child
- When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. Anyone
- ...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only… Accident
- Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. Always Anxious
- We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave… All
- She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give. Amounts
- Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep,… Beautiful
- There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless… Allowing
- It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it. Came
- Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye. All
- I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love. Half
- Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that… All
- That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open. Affliction
- Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment. Absorb