Frank McCourt Quotes
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I think there are two cities in the world - New York and Rome.
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I'd like to stand up in those classes and announce to the world that I'm too busy to be Irish or Catholic or anything else, that I'm working day and night to make a living, trying to read books for my courses and falling asleep in the library ....
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It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.
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I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'
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I knew I had to find my own way of teaching.
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When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery. From his childhood.'
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If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.
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I don't know anything about a stock!
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There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
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I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.
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In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.
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My sister died in Brooklyn.
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Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.
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When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.
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At 66, you're supposed to die or get hemorrhoids.
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I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.
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Every life is a mystery. There is nobody whose life is normal and boring.
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We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
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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.
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I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family.
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They tell me I'm on 'Politically Incorrect' with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun.
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The uncluttered life is the key to a good memory.
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I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed.
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If I went to the pub lunch and cleared my head with a pint surely there would be an insight, a flash of inspiration. Surely. My money went over the bar. The pint came back. Nothing else.