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
Think, Fact, Like, Bursts
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
Childhood, Alive, Also, Recapture
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
Question, New, Last, Tossed
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
- Edna O'Brien
Guilt, Irish, Irish Catholic, Iceberg
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
- Edna O'Brien
Soul, Mind, Writers, Hotels
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
- Edna O'Brien
Mothers, Either, Fathers, Secretly
Writing is like carrying a fetus.
- Edna O'Brien
Writing, Like, Fetus, Carrying
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
- Edna O'Brien
I Am, Summon, Servant, Simply
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
- Edna O'Brien
Nothing, Should, Means, Armed
Loading more quotes...
If you're searching for quotes on a different topic, feel free to browse our Topics page or explore a diverse collection of quotes from various Authors to find inspiration.