IrishWriter and Novelist He immigrated to Canada and is best known for his first novel, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, 1955, 1921-1999 Popularity:
“There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.”
“As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.”
“As the flow of subliterary "news items" and anecdotes increases, the writer's work withers and stales until, in grim transference, his life becomes his oeuvre and he his only character.”
“The brace works like a bumper on your car. It absorbs the load. So a lot of the load isn't distributed through the body, it's actually distributed through the brace.”
