Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish novelist Brian Moore.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland, who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.
And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems.
The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
After a goalless first half, the score at half time is 0-0.
As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.
If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.