Dermot Healy

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.

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These are some quotes by Irish author Dermot Healy Novelist, who was born in 1947.

Quotes by Dermot Healy

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

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There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

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