Irish - Author | August 19, 1930 - July 19, 2009
I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.
Frank McCourt
SchoolHigh SchoolNeverHighWell
For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place.
RedSpringHairPlaceBedKid
I was ashamed of it, of the poverty I came from.
PovertyAshamedI CameCame
A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?'
StarsLosingPeopleWorldStartSay
I've had experiences on both sides of the ocean and various classrooms and bedrooms around New York.
OceanNew YorkNewSidesBoth Sides
If I have a cause, it's the cause of the teacher.
TeacherCause
Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to write. I was born with a gene to tell my story, and I just had to.
MotherStoryHelpBornPoorWrite
It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.
MeListeningBookSeeingNowYears
I knew I had to find my own way of teaching.
FindWayMy OwnOwnTeachingKnew
I thought everything would be different in America. It wasn't.
ThoughtBe DifferentAmericaWould
I hated school in Ireland.
SchoolHatedIreland
You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.
GreatFightWarYouGoRight
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