Edna O'Brien People Quotations

...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.

Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.