Frank McCourt

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching

— Frank McCourt

When I was a teacher, I'd walk into the classroom. I stood at the board. I was the man. I directed operations.…

— Frank McCourt

I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known…

— Frank McCourt

I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the…

— Frank McCourt

I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy…

— Frank McCourt

I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

— Frank McCourt

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

— Frank McCourt

Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan…

— Frank McCourt

I would dream of going up to the 'New York Times' and asking them if I could please be a copy boy…

— Frank McCourt

I'm always a great student of writers' work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk's robe, and he always…

— Frank McCourt

You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is…

— Frank McCourt

I thought everything would be different in America. It wasn't.

— Frank McCourt

“There's no use asking more questions. If you ask a question they tell you it's a mystery, you'll understand when you grow…

— Frank McCourt

“In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he…

— Frank McCourt

First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that…

— Frank McCourt

There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it.…

— Frank McCourt

I knew I had to find my own way of teaching.

— Frank McCourt

“With Angela drawn to the hangdog look and Malachy lonely after three months in jail, there was bound to be a knee-trmbler.…

— Frank McCourt

“There's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone.”

— Frank McCourt

Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world

— Frank McCourt

I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.

— Frank McCourt

Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.

— Frank McCourt

Every life is a mystery. There is nobody whose life is normal and boring.

— Frank McCourt

“...you, the privileged, the chosen, the pampered, with nothing to do but go to school, hang out, do a little studying, go…

— Frank McCourt

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else…

— Frank McCourt