Irish Screenwriter Quotes

John Banville

Neil Jordan

Frank McCourt

Liam O'Flaherty

Hugh Leonard

Derek Landy

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

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

No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will find no other exercise more valuable in the cultivation of faculties which will help him to success in agility, strength, determination, coolness, and quick exercise of judgement.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.

Liam O'Flaherty

You have no idea the power generated each time somebody is told a story. When a conscious, sentient mind willingly ignores what is real, what is fact, and instead chooses to invest in people and places that never existed...It's magnificent.

He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.

In a profession where simple accountancy is preferable to a degree in English, illiteracy is not considered to be a great drawback.

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

If you carry a 00 number it means you're licensed to kill, not get killed.

Johanna Harwood