Top 51 Bruen Quotes
#1. Jim Harrison's novels, John McPhee's nonfiction, Flannery O'Connor's short stories, and the crime novels of John Sandford, Ken Bruen, and T. Jefferson Parker. His books
C.J. Box
#2. And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.
Ken Bruen
#3. Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour.
Ken Bruen
#4. -it's life... In all its granite hardness.
Ken Bruen
#5. I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.
Ken Bruen
#6. Roberts knocked, heard: 'Enter.' Thought: 'Wanker.
Ken Bruen
#7. Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old cliche applied: they handed her to me, and my world turned upside down - and I realised I was now going to be vulnerable in more ways than I expected.
Ken Bruen
#8. We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.
Ken Bruen
#9. I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it's sharp as a nun on her second sherry.
Ken Bruen
#10. You'd test the patience of a saint.
Ken Bruen
#11. Expect nothing, and by Christ, you're entitled to even less.
Ken Bruen
#12. I committed a cardinal sin as a kid. I never spoke, and my mother thought there was something seriously wrong with me. A silent child is regarded as a problem in Ireland, and I just read all the time.
Ken Bruen
#13. A mini-cab later and he arrived in Stockwell, where the pit bulls travelled in twos. Ludlow Road is near the tube station, a short mugging away.
Ken Bruen
#14. Even Def Leppard couldn't get him out of his funk. When the Def couldn't crank you, it was way past time to shoot someone.
Ken Bruen
#15. He missed two people: a) the girl she was; b) the person she'd made him feel he might have been. A deep sigh escaped him.
Ken Bruen
#17. By the holy, Jack Taylor. I was beginning to think you were a rumor running around as a fact.
Ken Bruen
#18. The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.
Ken Bruen
#19. The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists.
Ken Bruen
#20. The whiskey kicked like a mugger.
Ken Bruen
#21. My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find a job in insurance.
Ken Bruen
#22. After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream?
Ken Bruen
#23. Books. I needed to ground myself and nothing, not even the Jay, quite does it like books. I don't always have the focus to read them but I sure do need them around
Ken Bruen
#24. Laundromats ... like a waiting room for people who didn't go anywhere
Ken Bruen
#26. It's said the difference between one friend and none is infinity.
Ken Bruen
#27. I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange." (Dale Cooper, in Twin Peaks)
Ken Bruen
#28. He looked old, like a stranger. He was someone else, someone whom he could easily hate. (Tom Pitts, Piggyback)
Ken Bruen
#29. I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.
Ken Bruen
#30. Sometimes there's just no justice. The bad guys do live, if not happily ever after, then certainly conspicuously.
Ken Bruen
#31. Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.
Ken Bruen
#32. She obviously had disappointing news in her teens and wasn't yet recovered.
Ken Bruen
#33. In London, I tended to hang with the fallen.
Ken Bruen
#34. Hemingway had a handy dictum. You want to know if something is morally right? Listen to your stomach. If it sits like broken glass, then it's morally wrong.
Ken Bruen
#36. Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.
Ken Bruen
#37. There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
Ken Bruen
#38. The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!
Ken Bruen
#39. Friday night, I resolved to have a quiet time. Two pints and a chips carry-home. Alas, the pints got away from me and I hit the top shelf.
Ken Bruen
#40. I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.
Ken Bruen
#41. The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned ... THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.
Ken Bruen
#42. The national sport in Ireland, apart from talking, is hurling.
Ken Bruen
#43. Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too.
Ken Bruen
#44. My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise.
Ken Bruen
#46. Your life is in some bizarre state when priests are throwing abuse at you on the street.
Ken Bruen
#47. Max couldn't believe he'd fallen for her. If he'd just had a thing for flat-chested women none of this would have happened.
Ken Bruen
#48. He was in his mid-thirties, with a posture that suggested a hundred.
Ken Bruen
#49. I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.
Ken Bruen
#50. I didn't know what to say. Said 'I don't know what to say.
Ken Bruen
#51. Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.
Ken Bruen
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
