Ken Bruen quotes

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it. (Ken Bruen)

After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream?

Ken Bruen

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

Ken Bruen

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

Ken Bruen

Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old cliche applied: they handed her to me, and my world turned upside down - and I realised I was now going to be vulnerable in more ways than I expected.

Ken Bruen

I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.

Ken Bruen

I'd kill to be a poet.

Ken Bruen

Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.

Ken Bruen

I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.

Ken Bruen

I committed a cardinal sin as a kid. I never spoke, and my mother thought there was something seriously wrong with me. A silent child is regarded as a problem in Ireland, and I just read all the time.

Ken Bruen

The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer! (Ken Bruen)

My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find a job in insurance.

Ken Bruen

My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise.

Ken Bruen

I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.

Ken Bruen

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

Ken Bruen

Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour.

Ken Bruen

Ken Bruen

Occupation: Irish Writer
Born: January 3, 1951
Died: March 29, 2025
Quotes count: 16

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