Because Quote by Colm Toibin

I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore…

— Anne Enright

“I was beginning to understand how the Irish mentality worked. The more foolish, illogical or surreal one's actions were perceived t be (and mine…

— Tony Hawks

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

— Lady Gregory

“Think of the letters which have placed you nowhere, have given you something lonely, and the restraint of all anger at loneliness.”

— Michael Burkard

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

— Haruki Murakami

There's still a great hesitancy in the Irish make up about expressing feelings... it'd be nice to say I miss you, I love you,…

— Fionnula Flanagan

“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.”

— Matthew Quick

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them…

— Bernadette Devlin

Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not…

— Nancy Spain

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive…

— Maeve Binchy

If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a…

— Sei Shonagon

I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over the world,…

— Michael Scott