Irish Writer Quotes

#1. I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.

John Boyne

#2. I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

Maeve Binchy

#3. The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned ... THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

Ken Bruen

#4. Felicia's Journey by the Irish short-story writer and novelist William Trevor.

Will Schwalbe

#5. At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.

Tabitha Suzuma

#6. Well I had the perfect job, perfect house and perfect family and I didn't know it. I kept striving for more.

Annette J. Dunlea

#7. I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because the Irish nuns who educated me taught me something about bravery with their willingness to give so much to me.

Richard Rodriguez

#8. It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.

Celia Thaxter

#9. I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.

Ang Lee

#10. Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

Michael Moore

#11. He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a father.

David Louden

#12. I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

Diablo Cody

#13. To have come from Ireland no matter how long ago is to be of Ireland in some part forever.

Frank Delaney

#14. It was a romantic tale saying we were more than our bodies our soul lives on after death. We shed the outer body but the important bits the soul and heart lives on for eternity

Annette J. Dunlea

#15. It was a sacrifice worthy of her and dreams are made to be killed.

David Louden

#16. Ronan woke up the following morning with a terrible hangover and a huge sense of regret. He had hurt the woman he loves most in the world and he knew Katie was very strong willed and didn't forgive easily.

Annette J. Dunlea

#17. It's often said that "the Irish built America. The truth is, not only did they build it, they also manufactured, repaired, and cleaned it, especially in the decades before and after the potato famine.

Rashers Tierney

#18. The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Ezra Pound

#19. But as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.

Joseph O'Connor

#20. Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

George William Russell

#21. One Kerry man seduced and was taking her to the ball. She felt like Cinderella it had taken her 16 and half years to get him to take her out anywhere not a mind to the school ball.

Annette J. Dunlea

#22. So you're the little smart ass from Poleglass.
I wanted to point out he sounded like Dr. Seuss but bit my lip and remembered the warning the old lady gave me.

David Louden

#23. She was emotionally retarded having no sense of humour, cold and no people skills. She was like her mother was obsessed by appearances and wealth and longed to get married to escape from home.

Annette J. Dunlea

#24. I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others.

Stewart Stafford

#25. Scarlett O'Hara's father, Thomas, is an Irish immigrant who names his plantation Tara, after the home of the High Kings in Ireland. In an appealing nod to the "luck of the Irish," we read that Thomas O'Hara won his lands in a card game!

Rashers Tierney

#26. The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.

Samuel Beckett

#27. Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father}

Richard Mc Sweeney

#28. Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.

Vironika Tugaleva

#29. I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

Oscar Wilde

#30. I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand ... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.

Edna O'Brien

#31. The normal seething mass of emotion that never seemed to be directed at me was still there. But the elements that were directed towards me contained humor, disbelief, fondness, resignation, possessiveness and a weird jumbled mass that I couldn't identify - but it wasn't negative.

Anne Zoelle

#32. He looked along the line of children, exhibits A to C of his existence and heirs to the twisted throne of his corrupt genetics.

David Louden

#33. In 1903, Sir James Power, Lord Mayor of Dublin, was surprised to note on a transatlantic trip that the typical Irish immigrant in America was now "not merely a hewer of wood and a drawer of water." In fact, he remarked that they are "found occupying...respectable positions in society.

Rashers Tierney

#34. People who serve you without love get even behind your back.

Walt Whitman

#35. I've told you before I'm not guilty of anything; I'm just guilty, that's all.

Mike McCormack

#36. Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

W.B.Yeats