Quotes by : Edna O'Brien

Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting.....

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

It is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic absorption,....

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions....

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore....

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen,....

In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

My friends I tell you this, we are a jolly group but put us in uniform and all that change. In war I....