46 Quotes by Ken Bruen

The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

He missed two people: a) the girl she was; b) the person she’d made him feel he might have been. A deep sigh escaped him.

Sometimes there's just no justice. The bad guys do live, if not happily ever after, then certainly conspicuously.

Roberts knocked, heard: ‘Enter.’ Thought: ‘Wanker.

My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find a job in insurance.

After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream?

Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.

I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.

I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.