"Very first thing in the morning, I spew……" — Kevin Barry
"Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours."
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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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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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