Edna O'Brien Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Writing is like carrying a fetus.