Quotes by irish authors

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. Elizabeth Bowen

Hope Impossible Selfishness Forlorn Pity Lovers Brief

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. Elizabeth Bowen

Alone Talking End Quietly Committed Children Violations

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. Elizabeth Bowen

Coins Pockets He Putting Got His Friend Holes Help Helpful

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. Elizabeth Bowen

You Youth Find Taken Taken For Granted Greatness Want Your Granted

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. Elizabeth Bowen

Language Statement Mixture

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. Elizabeth Bowen

People Meeting Unlike Oneself Only Outlook Idea Does Unique

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. Elizabeth Bowen

You Think Main Road Main Thing Show Keep Thing

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. Elizabeth Bowen

Writing Value First Out Must Proportion Writer Written Importance Actual

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all. Emma Donoghue

Work Beautiful Day Home World Will Weather Partner Lost Say Tend Beautiful Day Come Real The Real World Real World Notice Noticed

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books. Emma Donoghue

Books Come Most Always Been Up Inclined

Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world. Emma Donoghue

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene. Emma Donoghue

Chapter Out Plots Some Structure Scene Marvelous Writers Particular Know Without Going Happen Produce Planning Novel Each Need

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was. Emma Donoghue

Success Failure Way Finding More Time-Consuming Than Success Is Ever

You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody like Daniel Day-Lewis, who transforms himself eerily? Well, I aim to be the Daniel Day-Lewis kind of writer. I don't have a house style. Emma Donoghue

I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.' Emma Donoghue

Work Me Better Remember Please Give More Look Contemporary Period Said Historical Selling Than Where Us Much Your Publisher

I would say I have sort of a natural gift for character, and following one person's point of view at a time, and dialogue, but I'm not naturally good at strong plot. Emma Donoghue

Time Good Character Natural Gift Strong Say Plot Would Following Point Point Of View Sort Dialogue Person View Naturally

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent. Emma Donoghue

Parent Ideal Knows How Any

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way. Emma Donoghue

Life Writing Way Put House Off Gets Order Really Who