Edna O'Brien Quotes

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.
Edna O'Brien

Work, Brain, Fact

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

Simply, Servant, Summon

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Edna O'Brien

Long, Guilt, Irish

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.
Edna O'Brien

Time, Trying, Alive

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

Emotional, Mothers, Either

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

Trust, Women, Men

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?'
Edna O'Brien

Someone, Between, Last

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
Edna O'Brien

Women, Nothing, Vote

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
Edna O'Brien

Live, Mind, Soul

Writing is like carrying a fetus.
Edna O'Brien

Writing, Carrying, Fetus

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Nationality: Irish

Born: December 15, 1932

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