Edna O'Brien

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

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
-Edna O'Brien

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
-Edna O'Brien

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
-Edna O'Brien