Edna O'Brien quotes
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
Writing is like carrying a fetus.