Childhood Quote by Maeve Binchy

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

— Fiona Shaw

Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an astonishing number…

— Maggie O'Farrell

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that…

— Emma Donoghue

I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew…

— Michael Scott

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that…

— Emma Donoghue

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood…

— Frank McCourt

To be an Irish poet after that 19th century in which there was such a struggle toward the light, I think still will always…

— Eavan Boland

If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly…

— Anne Enright

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned…THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

— Ken Bruen

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came…

— Marian Keyes

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to…

— Tracy Chevalier

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from…

— James Nesbitt