Author Name

I’m an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Author : Edna O'Brien

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Author : Edna O'Brien

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don’t trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Author : Edna O'Brien

The most important thing in life is to be happy. It doesn’t matter what people say.

Author : Edna O'Brien

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

Author : Edna O'Brien

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Author : Edna O'Brien

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

Author : Edna O'Brien

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Author : Edna O'Brien

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

Author : Edna O'Brien

My hand does the work and I don’t have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It’s like a dam in the brain that bursts.

Author : Edna O'Brien