Quotes by Ken Bruen - Page 1

I get through some print.
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Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.
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Crime
Crime Fiction
Rock
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Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.
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Black
Fiction
Waiting
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Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour.
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Humour
Things Happen
Life My Life Dark
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And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.
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Evil
People
Want
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The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists.
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Bounty
Board
Head
Tourist
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I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.
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Prove
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The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.
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Book
Paper
Praise
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My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise.
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Blessing
Disguise
Twists
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My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find a job in insurance.
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Believed
Hoped
Insurance
Real Man
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The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.
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Joy
Missing
Writing
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Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.
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Dialogue
Height
Tarantino
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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 / Writer
Republic
Time Long Long Time
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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.
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Book
Ifs
Refuge
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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!
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Bible
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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.
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Anyway
Bug
Day Job
Failed
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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 / Writer
Madness
Used
Lots
Investigator
Jack
Private
Seemed
Taylor
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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?
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Failure
Five
Admitted
Cut
How Many People
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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.
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Becoming
Emigration
Exploding
Noir
Notion
City
Cosmopolitan
Fast
Reversed
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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.
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Critics
Irish
Novels
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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.
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Committed
Ireland
Mother
Problem
Silent
Sin
Time Mother Me
Time Me Never
Child
Cardinal
Read
Wrong
Regarded
Seriously
Spoke
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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.
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Cliche
Expected
Realised
Upside Down
Vulnerable
Myself World Me
Applied
Myself Look World
Handed
Upside
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