Dermot Healy Quotes

1947–2014 Ireland

Dermot Healy (9 November 1947 – 29 June 2014) was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer. He was known for his versatility, his wide-ranging writing ability and tendency to mix and merge different forms.

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I often find poems hand written in old abandoned notebooks.

Penguin Group (2013)

The Bible has entered much of my work as have Latin and Greek mythology and verse.

Penguin Group (2013)

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer – reading is so much a part of it.

Without the reader there would be no writer.

It is a costly thing living here to fight the erosion. The sea is constantly threatening to cut into the coastline and sweep all this away. Every year we have to haul stones up here to repair the damage and plug the holes. It's a full-time job.

John O'Mahony (2000)

I know writing is what I do but I still don't see myself as one.

I like the idea of stopping mid-sentence, like Graham Greene.

I'm no good at dinner parties. I feel very uneasy at them.

I'm always fascinated by etymology.

I rang up this publisher and they asked me what I was doing at the time. I told them I was a house-painter, so first of all they had me come round and paint the place. Only later did they consider my work and Banished Misfortune was published.

John O'Mahony (2000)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dermot Healy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.