Fiction Quote by Declan Kiberd

“If my grandfather was here, he would have died laughing ... Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can be…

— Stephen J. Joyce

“A local butcher offered me money to put in my next book a portrayal of a customer he didn't like that would make him…

— John McGahern

“[on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.”

— M. Edward McNally

“A real Irishman will give everything of himself--except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.”

— Jim Tully Beggars Abroad

“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line…

— John Buchan

“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing…

— Richard Paul Evans

“A man is always a teller of stories (...) and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it”

— Jean Paul Sartre

“This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when…

— Eddie Lenihan

“I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered.”

— Kaaron Warren

“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery deceptions, tell…

— Tom Harper

“We say that the plow made civilization but for that matter, so did manure.”

— Benjamin Lichtenberg