Top 1200 Irish Writers Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

The lion's share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangover.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

You don't see very many Irish-Cypriot pop-up restaurants kicking about!

I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.

Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.

You have to have more people who don't look like you in the writers room. I try to have some people who don't look like me in my writers room. I think it's important to have a group of voices, of people who can dissent.

Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.

The revelations of the Cloyne report have brought the government, Irish Catholics, and the Vatican to an unprecedented juncture.

Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine writing was uncritical and emphasized wine as a romantic, historic beverage. Criticism and comparative tastings were eschewed for fear of offending the trade, which most writers depended upon for survival.

I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.

Howard University holds something called "Heart's Day," an all day ceremony in which a writer is honored. I was the recipient of this honor. It's a wonderful ceremony that Eleanor Traylor chair of English at Howard University organizes for writers. Writers from around the country came to pay tribute to my work. It was very flattering.

We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.

I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.

Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.

I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home.

Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun. You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on!

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

I kick myself that I don't speak Irish. Ah, man, I'd love to. I am going to learn.

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.

Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.

With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating to approach it. I feel like so many writers who have either lived through it firsthand or were part of that generation where they were closer to the people who were in it have written so beautifully about it, so there's no lack of great books about it

My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.

There's still, dare I say it, a cultural propaganda against the Irish, that we are, as women, 'feisty.' I hate that word.

Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace.

I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes.

Supporting Celtic, waving a tricolour because your parents are Irish - that's a valid culture.

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

There are plenty of Christian writers out there telling people what they should think. I'm happy to be one of the Christian writers simply telling people to think. For themselves.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

We have to be concerned about the gun killing that people who are Americans, who are Irish, and who are English, who are all around the country.

I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.

I love television because it's the most alive, because you don't know how it's going to end. It's a living thing. Sometimes the writers are watching you to see how things will unfold. Sometimes the writers have written it, and you come to it, and they have to change their way of going because of what you've done.

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.

Irish politicians are very accessible to the public, just the messenger boys for the local constituency.

I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you.

I still identify as Irish. But I'm a Londoner too. It really is a great place to grow up.

I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

I was born in Vietnam, and I was adopted by an Irish lady and a Hungarian man, and then I moved to America.

Writers don't want to appear to be stupid. I don't know - maybe people become writers so that they can prove that they're not. Of course getting a book published doesn't mean that they're not stupid. At a certain point you have to stop trying to prove something and write because you need to think about something and want to communicate, in a very broad sense.