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Quotes by Irish Authors
"When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary."
"I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between."
"Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew."
"I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much."
"You should have called us. Desmond would have picked you up.''No I wouldn't,' Valkyrie's dad said, stepping into earshot. 'Sorry, Fletcher, but I had important fatherly duties to take care of, which included eating breakfast, showering, and finding my trousers. Of those three, I only managed two. Without looking down, can you guess which one I missed?'... Fletcher smiled back. 'I just want to borrow Stephanie for a moment.''Take our daughter,' Valkryie's dad said, waving a hand airily. 'We have another one now."
"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion."
"I bet,' said Mulch, 'that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn.'Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer.Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything."
"The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."
"Doors are for people with no imagination."
"Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed."
"I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly."
"I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age."
"Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better."
"Tis an old maxim in the schools That flattery's the food of fools - Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit."
"Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to."
"Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy."
"The end is in the beginning and yet you go on."
"Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has."
"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."
"You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not."
"Embrace the fundamentals like the closest of friends, for they will be the foundation of your future success."
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
"There was a tremendous amount of disappointment in missing the World Cup finals in 1998, so they're getting excited about this one and I really think we could do well in the Far East."
"They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance."
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
"He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glasses."
"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
"So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape."
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