Quotes by : Edna O'Brien

Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither,....

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.

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....

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart....

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....