Ken Bruen Famous Quotes & Sayings

He missed two people: a) the girl she was; b) the person she'd made him feel he might have been. A deep sigh escaped him. — Ken Bruen

I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange." (Dale Cooper, in Twin Peaks) — Ken Bruen

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

It's said the difference between one friend and none is infinity. — Ken Bruen

You'd test the patience of a saint. — 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

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

Expect nothing, and by Christ, you're entitled to even less. — Ken Bruen

Hemingway had a handy dictum. You want to know if something is morally right? Listen to your stomach. If it sits like broken glass, then it's morally wrong. — 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

It's always the same. When you come out of it and take a look around, the sight of wounds that you have left on the people who care for you makes you wince more than those you have inflicted on yourself. Though I am devoid of regret or remorse for almost anything I have done, if there is a corner for these feelings then it lies with that awareness. It should be enough to stop you from ever going back down there, but it seldom is. Anthony Loyd, My War Gone By, I Miss It So. — Ken Bruen

A mini-cab later and he arrived in Stockwell, where the pit bulls travelled in twos. Ludlow Road is near the tube station, a short mugging away. — Ken Bruen

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

Your life is in some bizarre state when priests are throwing abuse at you on the street. — Ken Bruen

You ever read Anton LaVey? — Ken Bruen

By the holy, Jack Taylor. I was beginning to think you were a rumor running around as a fact. — Ken Bruen

The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour. — 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

Laundromats ... like a waiting room for people who didn't go anywhere — Ken Bruen

I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug. — 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

She obviously had disappointing news in her teens and wasn't yet recovered. — Ken Bruen

The national sport in Ireland, apart from talking, is hurling. — Ken Bruen

I didn't know what to say. Said 'I don't know what to say. — Ken Bruen

Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too. — Ken Bruen

An alkie in full defiant — 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

The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists. — Ken Bruen

Friday night, I resolved to have a quiet time. Two pints and a chips carry-home. Alas, the pints got away from me and I hit the top shelf. — Ken Bruen

I get through some print. — Ken Bruen

He looked old, like a stranger. He was someone else, someone whom he could easily hate. (Tom Pitts, Piggyback) — Ken Bruen

I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it's sharp as a nun on her second sherry. — 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

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

Max couldn't believe he'd fallen for her. If he'd just had a thing for flat-chested women none of this would have happened. — Ken Bruen

In London, I tended to hang with the fallen. — Ken Bruen

I'd kill to be a poet. — Ken Bruen

Sometimes there's just no justice. The bad guys do live, if not happily ever after, then certainly conspicuously. — Ken Bruen

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

-it's life... In all its granite hardness. — Ken Bruen

Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for. — 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

Books. I needed to ground myself and nothing, not even the Jay, quite does it like books. I don't always have the focus to read them but I sure do need them around — Ken Bruen