« All Few Sentences Quotes
·
Kevin Barry's Page
Few Sentences Quotes by Kevin Barry
1 Few Sentences quote by Kevin Barry
More Quotes by Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One…
-
I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he…
-
When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a…
-
I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of…
-
In my very early days as a journalist, as a cub reporter on a local newspaper, I used to cover the district…
-
I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.
-
Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hills, make up country…
-
I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by the Irish…
-
Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there are so…
-
I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems…
-
Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite…
-
Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.
See all 13 quotes by Kevin Barry »
More Few Sentences Quotes
Popular Few Sentences quotes from across the collection:
-
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the…
— William Zinsser
-
If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to…
— Bill Nye
-
In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more…
— Tim Frick
-
If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on…
— Christopher Hitchens
-
Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic…
— Larry McMurtry
-
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to…
— Brian Kernighan
-
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay…
— Walter Moers
-
When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a…
— Kevin Barry
See all Few Sentences Quotes »
Browse Kevin Barry Quotes by Category