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Edna O'Brien Quotes

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: December 15, 1932

Topics

Emotional Mothers Reserved Either

After I graduated college, I moved to L.A. I started working for the Garry Marshall Theatre in Toluca Lake and did theater at the Hudson Theatre in Santa Monica. I paid my dues by working at every single restaurant in the Grove until they fired me. I worked an overnight shift at the Mondrian Hotel.

College Me Theatre Restaurant Hotel

It's hard to be at your best and to know exactly what is your best at all times because even when you do see yourself, you think you could be better, and you often feel that there is something you could have done differently.

Best Yourself Think Better Feel You

The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to decode very well yet. They lack automatic decoding skills, and this prevents them from being able to read accurately, much less smoothly and quickly. Decoding accuracy is the first prerequisite to fluency.

Child Know Skills Accuracy First

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

Process Emotional Stuff Slowly Very

I was raised to work for my father when I was four.

Work Father I Was Raised Four Raised

Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.

Father Day Men Holidays Go Get

All I had when I began writing the first book was rather vague images conjured up by the notion of a man in a kilt, so essentially I began with Jamie, although I had no idea what his name was at the time.

Time Man Writing Book Name First

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Douglas William Jerrold

Marriage Wine Glass Like Second

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Beginning Desire Plot

I was so depressed for so many years over trying to become a working comedian that my sense of self-worth would plummet.

Trying Self-Worth Become Over Years

And now it looks like I'm probably going to shoot a movie that I wrote. I got the money to do it, and I would star and all, because of being on Howard.

Money Looks Now Shoot Star Going

I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.

Tea People Organization Start Think

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