Top 1200 Irish Writers Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.

The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.

Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate best-selling author - but I live and die for the work. That's thrilling to me. It's thrilling that I do for others what certain writers did for me when I was a kid.

For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.

When I was in the writers' room, all these writers were like, "Ugh, another star that they gave a writing-producing credit to." But then within like an hour, they were like, "You're really a writer." "Yeah, I really am. I'm a writer, and a director, and a producer, and an actor, and a painter, and I do all that stuff in the Lush Life." It was great.

I make a mean Irish soda bread every Christmas and give it out to friends and family.

Next to President of the United States, Ambassador to Ireland is surely one of the best jobs an Irish American can hold.

Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our current situation may not be critiqued. We have not only lost the right to criticise, but the courage to do so.Why is modern China lacking in great writers? Because all the great writers are castrated while still in the nursery.

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'

I think the one reason that writers marry other writers - one of the reasons that I married another writer - was, I fell in love with that writer. But second of all, I had been married before and a source of marital strife was me needing to go away for a couple of weeks to write or it's Saturday and I think I just need to work today and not hang out with you.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.

I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who understand each other this way and others who understand each other that way. Then there's this great herd, the "herd of independent minds."

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

The Irish crowd and the humour, they really get it. Them riffing with 'The Room' makes the film watchable for me.

In English, you can find writers with a wonderful sense of humor, like Oscar Wilde. But in the French language, this is very special, and de Sade is one of the very brave writers with a sense of humor. But most people don't understand that. When they read de Sade, they take it seriously. They say, "Oh, what an awful man!" He is really a very unknown writer.

My favorite thing to do is rip the covers off a script when reading for writers to hire and make everybody read without names on the covers of the script. I can't tell you how many times my writers, women and men, will pick people of color and women much more often than they would with a cover on the script.

At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.

I come from a big Irish family who force-fed me as a kid, so not eating was never an option.

When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.

There are many people who say, I write for myself. I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.

I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

It was always about the future of writers, and about the way writers are treated in the future, and I think that was really hurtful to a lot of people in my position who had 160 people who depended on them to get this over with. So there was a lot of pain in it, and in that sense it will never be worth it, but I do think it was important.

Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman.

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.

The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And that language is a trap, that a dark evolutionary force has created languages to limit human thought. That writers are overrated fools. That all religions come from ancient comic writers. And the ultimate goal of comics is same as the purpose of humanity – to break free from language.

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies - as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.

When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and I think it's a great dialect.

For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are those just working out their obsessions. I think I'm a combination. I think, at least for these books, I'm going with fear. I've always been interested in fear. Fear is something I've dealt with in life, and I think it's the main motivating factor of everything, almost. From sex to politics.

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'

Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p.

I believe that writers run out of material, I really do. I believe very strongly in the fact that when the natural time is up, writers actually do run out of material. To me it's black and white. When there's a song there's a song, when there's not there's not.

I started acting when I was really young. I came to the States and didn't know anyone, and I spoke with a weird Irish accent.

I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else's skin.

For me, no one aspect of the Brexit debate displays so markedly the monomania of many Brexiteers as does the Irish question.

I'm a very proud Irish person, and also used to be an expat. We are a great nation, sound in fact!

Children's book writers tend to feel quite superior, and adult writers tend to feel they wouldn't know how to write a children's book - which might surprise you because I think a lot of people think it's the other way around.

The Irish and Russian communities are huge in New York, so this is truly one of the only places where I can fight in front of all of my fans.

I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me. Alice Munro, I felt that way about from an early time. Grace Paley.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.