We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Next quotes

• Frank McCourt:

  If somebody wants me to speak in, say, Chicago, a limousine picks me up at the door to brings me to

• Frank McCourt:

  If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fi

• Frank McCourt:

  We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told m

• Frank McCourt:

  They tell me I'm on 'Politically Incorrect' with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun.

• Frank McCourt:

  It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' last summer,

• Kevin Barry:

  I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I

• Kevin Barry:

  When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pe

• Kevin Barry:

  'City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script.

• Kevin Barry:

  I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of b

• Kevin Barry:

  In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the co