Quotes by Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien

… we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?

Knows

Voice

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun’s cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

Cells

People

Self

Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.

Book

Chairs

Space

Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.

Birth

Death

Way

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it’s a little covert.

Littles

Thieves

Writing

I always want to be in love, always. It’s like being a tuning fork.

Forks

Tuning

Want

I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

Cutting

Kind

People

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.

Childhood

Fatherhood

Trying

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.

Children

Hair

Hands

I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.

Dating

Men

Sleep

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Animal

Awful

Beautiful

Birth

Book

Brain

Calling

Catholic

Cells

Chairs

Character

Chastity

Childhood

Children

Country

Cutting

Dating

Death

Demon

Disturbed

Dog

Done

Dream

Eye

Fatherhood

Fear

Fetus

Flower

Forks

Form

Goodbye

Guilt

Hair

Half

Hands

Heart

Holy

Home

Horse

I Can

Imaginative

Inebriation

Ireland And The Irish

Kind

Kindness

Knowing

Knows

Landscape

Lasts

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Quotes by Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien

… we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun’s cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.

Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it’s a little covert.

I always want to be in love, always. It’s like being a tuning fork.

I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

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.

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.

I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.

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