Dermot Healy Quotes

• Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

  Dermot Healy

  Lying, Truth Is

  Dermot Healy (2016). “The Bend for Home”, p.64, Faber & Faber

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• I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

  Dermot Healy

  Home, Writing, People

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• When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.

  Dermot Healy

  Teacher, Cities, Two

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