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.” — Edna O'Brien
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“I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.” — Edna O'Brien
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“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
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“Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.” — Edna O'Brien
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“The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.” — Edna O'Brien
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“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.” — Edna O'Brien
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“Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.” — Edna O'Brien
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“Writing is like carrying a fetus.” — Edna O'Brien
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