Frank McCourt

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.

The uncluttered life is the key to a good memory.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.

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

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.