272 Quotes by Frank McCourt

Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.

If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.

People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family.

We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.

I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot of reading on my own, so I persuaded New York University to enroll me.

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.

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.

My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalogue number, that's all.

We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.