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“Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly serious.”

Kevin Barry

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Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the tablets of…

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Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

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I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two.…

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“rabid tush patrol”

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It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my life compared…

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I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be…

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I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life…

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The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets…

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I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

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“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must…

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The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a…

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I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area…

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I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

Aesop Rock

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

Andrew Lang

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

Floyd Cooper

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

Anna Quindlen

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It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

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I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

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Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

Doris Lessing

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“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

Neil Gaiman

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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

Anne Bronte

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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

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