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Just say I was born in the mid-30s.... If I die and you write my obituary, don't give my age.

Edna O'Brien

I never write about simple, gentle things, and I never will. It's not being sensational. I hate sensational books. Unless we look at dark and covered painful wounds, we can never heal them.

Edna O'Brien

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

Edna O'Brien

I dislike the phone," she says. "I like faxes. They're gentle. They arrive like little sausages. All I have to do is pray to God — this elusive, 'question mark over His head' God — that when I start to write tomorrow, it will come.

Edna O'Brien

I'm a good fighter. I stay the course. Part of it is to do with being a woman. I'm not being facetious. I think I am what Napoleon said about Madame de Sevigne. I think like a woman and write like a man. My books are very ferocious, though the language is well wrought.

Edna O'Brien