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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.
Edna O'Brien

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
Edna O'Brien

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.
Edna O'Brien

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Edna O'Brien

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
Edna O'Brien

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
Edna O'Brien

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
Edna O'Brien

Writing is like carrying a fetus.
Edna O'Brien

Type:
Novelist
Date of Birth:
1932-12-15
Year of Death:

Nationality:
Irish