Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
Quote by Edna O'Brien about country
Quotes by Edna O'Brien
10 quotes by Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien - irish novelist
Was born on 15 dec 1930.
Origin country: Ireland
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.
Quote by Edna O'Brien about childhood, time
I have some women friends but I prefer men, don't trust women, there is a built-in competition between women.
Quote by Edna O'Brien about friendship, competition, man
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Quote by Edna O'Brien about religion, guilt
In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this, is there someone new.
Quote by Edna O'Brien about opinion, question
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.
Quote by Edna O'Brien about opinion, brain, work
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Quote by Edna O'Brien about recollection
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
Quote by Edna O'Brien about mind, writers, soul
