I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Quote by Edna O'Brien

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Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a...

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a...

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters

I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare...

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare...

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That...

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That...

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives...

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives...

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their...

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their...

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure...

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure...

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands...

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's...

Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's...

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his...

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and...

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and...