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21 quotes by Frank McCourt

Francis "Frank" McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood.
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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

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Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

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I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I... →

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

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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... →

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First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make... →

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I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.

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

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The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

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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... →

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

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He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way... →

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I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for... →

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