Dermot Healy Quotes

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There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer – reading is so much a part of it.

Dermot Healy

I often find poems hand written in old abandoned notebooks.

Dermot Healy

It is a costly thing living here to fight the erosion. The sea is constantly threatening to cut into the coastline and sweep all this away. Every year we have to haul stones up here to repair the damage and plug the holes. It's a full-time job.

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I know writing is what I do but I still don't see myself as one.

Dermot Healy

I rang up this publisher and they asked me what I was doing at the time. I told them I was a house-painter, so first of all they had me come round and paint the place. Only later did they consider my work and Banished Misfortune was published.

Dermot Healy

The Bible has entered much of my work as have Latin and Greek mythology and verse.

Dermot Healy

[Kafka] taught me a lot about the normal and the abnormal, and the distance between them. [...] He's out there by himself. You get the jump in the feet when you read certain passages by him. That's the mark of truly great writing. It gives you the jump in the feet.

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I'm no good at dinner parties. I feel very uneasy at them.

Dermot Healy

I like the idea of stopping mid-sentence, like Graham Greene.

Dermot Healy

Dermot Healy

Dermot Healy

Born: July 18, 1947

Died: June 29, 2014 (aged 66)

Bio: Dermot Healy was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer. A member of Aosdána, Healy was also part of its governing body, the Toscaireacht.

Known for:

A Goat's Song (1994)
The bend for home (1996)
Sudden times (1999)
Long Time, No See (2011)
Fighting with shadows, or, Sciamachy (1984)

Dermot Healy on Wikipedia

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