Top 40 Quotes by Adrian McKinty

About Adrian McKinty

These are some quotes by Irish author Adrian McKinty Novelist, who was born in 1968.

I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.

I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.

Adrian McKinty

I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.

I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.

Adrian McKinty

I did the same thing as every Irish person who comes to New York. I arrived on a Wednesday, and by Saturday night, I was pulling pints at a pub in the Bronx.

I did the same thing as every Irish person who comes to New York. I arrived on a Wednesday, and by Saturday night, I was pulling pints at a pub in the Bronx.

Adrian McKinty

I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.

I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.

Adrian McKinty

I've always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express,' with David Niven and Peter Ustinov on the cover.

I've always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express,' with David Niven and Peter Ustinov on the cover.

Adrian McKinty

The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.

The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.

Adrian McKinty

I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.

I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.

Adrian McKinty

Every publisher or agent I've ever met told me the same thing - that Irish readers don't want to read about the bad old days of the Troubles; neither do the English and Americans - they only want to read about the Ireland of The Quiet Man, when red-haired widows are riding bicycles and everyone else is on a horse.

Adrian McKinty

On my Wikipedia page, it used to say I was born in Belfast, Ireland, then it said Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then it said Belfast, U.K. So there was a little war going on about where Belfast is located.

Adrian McKinty

'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel.

'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel.

Adrian McKinty

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