Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brienis an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short story writer. Philip Roth has described her "the most gifted woman now writing in English", while former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has cited her as "one of the great creative writers of her generation."...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 December 1932
CountryIreland
real games people
There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.
august wicked months
August is a wicked month.
women needs vote
It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.
temptation chastity
I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.
country stars flower
... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.
sometimes recalls one-word
Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.
talking two evening
Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.
people demon form
Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.
promiscuity
Promiscuity is the death of love.
mistake exit knows
I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.
voice knows
... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?
eye half landscape
There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise nature, and if it is celestial we invoke God, but if it is a loved one who defects, we excuse ourselves and say we have to be somewhere and are already late for our next appointment. We do not stay to put pennies over the half-dead eyes.
writing thieves littles
For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.
mean writing disturbed
Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.