"Libraries are where we learn that we can……" — Kevin Barry
"Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through 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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Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there…
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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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The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of…
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More Books Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
— Margaret Atwood
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But…
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed…
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
— Margaret Atwood
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
— Margaret Atwood
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of…
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