Quotes About Edna O'Brien

Nothing but rules. Rule the first: no callers at the front door. Rule the second: no callers at the back door. Rule the third: no going out after dark. The six dusters had to be washed each evening and accounted for.

most prized of all, her secretaire, a Napoleon III desk, full of nooks and crannies and pigeonholes

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.