"Irish writing is so strong that it can……" — Kevin Barry
"Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there are so many gaps. The small west of Ireland cities and the working classes there have almost never appeared in Irish literature, simply because those communities were never in the way of producing books."
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13 Quotes by Kevin Barry
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In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse…
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I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do,…
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When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and…
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I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic…
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In my very early days as a journalist, as a cub reporter on a local newspaper, I used to cover…
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I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.
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Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hills, make…
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I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by…
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I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where…
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Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee…
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Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.
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The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of…
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