Kevin Barry quotes

In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.' (Kevin Barry)
I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge. View quote
Kevin Barry
At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which had a disastrous effect of making me think I needed to write the next great Jewish American novel. As a ginger-haired child in the West of Ireland, that didn't work out very well, as you can imagine. View quote
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I won't be happy until I'm up there, receiving the Nobel Prize. View quote
Kevin Barry
A prize with money attached to it has a lot of prestige. View quote
Kevin Barry
I miss journalism an awful lot. View quote
Kevin Barry
Art is a hideously painful business, you know. Pity me! Or at least buy me a drink. View quote
Kevin Barry
I am hugely insecure and desperate to be loved and I want my reader to adore me, to a disturbing, stalkerish degree. View quote
Kevin Barry
I greatly enjoyed working as a freelance journalist, because it gets you out of the house, and it gets you talking to people, but it wasn't satisfying all of my cravings, and I knew that I needed to work with the other side of my brain - the darker, murkier side! View quote
Kevin Barry
I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.' View quote
Kevin Barry
I've been haunting bookshops and hiding behind display signs of TV chefs (Nigella is excellent to hide behind as she has a huge arse) as I spy on the short fiction section and see if anyone's tempted by my sweet bait. I've also been counting how many copies of the book are left in shops, and I've been covering other "upcoming” authors' books with mine. (Kevin Barry)