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" Teachers have a million stories, but nobody consults them. "

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" I didn't know you could write about yourself. Nobody ever told me about this. "

" Early in my teaching days, the kids asked me the meaning of a poem. I replied, 'I don't know any more than you do. I have ideas. What are your ideas?' I realized then that we're all in the same boat. What does anybody know? "

" I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap. "

" O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So that astounded me because I thought you could only write about English matters. "

" If I had millions and millions and millions of dollars, I'd leave a large portion to the 42nd Street library. That's why - that was my hangout, the reading rooms, the North and South reading rooms. I'd go there, and my God, I couldn't believe I had access to all of these books. That was my university. "

" There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we'd all be in some kind of native costume - which doesn't exist - and we'd be dancing at the crossroads, babbling away in Gaelic, going to Mass, everyone virginal and pure. "

" I hated school in Ireland. "

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

" I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed. "

" We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people. "

" My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn. "

" On the last day of my teaching career, I was sitting in my apartment, having a glass of wine, thinking I'm glad I did it, that I had been somehow useful, that I had learned something. "

" My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time. "

" Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow. "

" Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy. "

" When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race. "

" I'm more interested in writing than in performing. "

" When I was a teacher, I'd walk into the classroom. I stood at the board. I was the man. I directed operations. I was an intellectual and artistic and moral traffic cop, and I - and I would direct the class, most of the time. "

" The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. "

" We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe. "

" I'm always a great student of writers' work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk's robe, and he always had to have a rotten apple on his desk. The smell of the apple inspired him somehow. "

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

" Certain citizens claimed I had disgraced the fair name of the city of Limerick, that I had attacked the church, that I had despoiled my mother's name, and that if I returned to Limerick, I would surely be found hanging from a lamppost. "

" My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born. "

" I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot of reading on my own, so I persuaded New York University to enroll me. "

" The day I write my last word will be the day that I feel free. "

" I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so. "