Top 21 Quotes by Frank McCourt

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.