Zitat des Tages von Hugh Leonard:
Gossip is more popular than literature.
I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.
We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.
I think with every writer there are two people there.
It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.
I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
A thing well done is worth doing.
The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
I've always believed in survival.
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.
I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.