Edna O'Brien Quote

[A novel] has a right and a duty to ask very painful and difficult questions. It doesn't solve them, but it asks them.


The New York Times (30 August 1995)


[A novel] has a right and a duty to ask very painful and difficult questions. It doesn't solve them, but it asks them.

[A novel] has a right and a duty to ask very painful and difficult questions. It doesn't solve them, but it asks them.

[A novel] has a right and a duty to ask very painful and difficult questions. It doesn't solve them, but it asks them.

[A novel] has a right and a duty to ask very painful and difficult questions. It doesn't solve them, but it asks them.