Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Edna O’Brien (Irish Author)

Edna O’Brien (b.1932) is an Irish novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and screenwriter. She is best known for her portrayal of women with evocative descriptions and sexual openness. Some of her books were banned in Ireland.

Born in Twamgraney, County Clare, O’Brien was educated at the Convent of Mercy, Loughrea, and the Pharmaceutical College of Dublin, and practiced pharmacy briefly before becoming a writer.

O’Brien’s central themes are isolation, guilt, and loss—all articulated in musical prose. Among her novels are The Country Girls trilogy (The Country Girls, 1960; The Lonely Girl, 1962; and Girls in Their Married Bliss, 1964,) August is a Wicked Month (1965,) and A Pagan Place (1970.) More recent novels include The High Road (1988,) Time and Tide (1992,) House of Splendid Isolation (1994,) Wild Decembers (1999,) In the Forest (2002,) and The Light of Evening (2006.)

O’Brien published several collections of short stories, The Love Object (1968,) A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories (1974,) A Fanatic Heart (1984,) Lantern Slides (1990,) and Saints and Sinners (2011.) She also wrote several plays and screenplays, a book of verse called On the Bone (1989,) and some non-fiction, including a biography of James Joyce (1999) and the biography Byron in Love (2009.)

O’Brien’s autobiography is Country Girl (2012.)

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: “Is there someone new?”
Edna O’Brien
Topics: Love

In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.
Edna O’Brien
Topics: Seasons

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