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Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll. — Ken Bruen

By the holy, Jack Taylor. I was beginning to think you were a rumor running around as a fact. — Ken Bruen

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

A mini-cab later and he arrived in Stockwell, where the pit bulls travelled in twos. Ludlow Road is near the tube station, a short mugging away. — Ken Bruen

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. — Ken Bruen

My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise. — Ken Bruen

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned ... THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer. — Ken Bruen

You ever read Anton LaVey? — Ken Bruen

The national sport in Ireland, apart from talking, is hurling. — Ken Bruen

He was in his mid-thirties, with a posture that suggested a hundred. — Ken Bruen

Roberts knocked, heard: 'Enter.' Thought: 'Wanker. — Ken Bruen

The whiskey kicked like a mugger. — Ken Bruen

The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists. — Ken Bruen

I didn't know what to say. Said 'I don't know what to say. — Ken Bruen

Your life is in some bizarre state when priests are throwing abuse at you on the street. — Ken Bruen

Friday night, I resolved to have a quiet time. Two pints and a chips carry-home. Alas, the pints got away from me and I hit the top shelf. — Ken Bruen

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

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such. — Ken Bruen

I'd kill to be a poet. — Ken Bruen

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it. — Ken Bruen

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? — Ken Bruen

An alkie in full defiant — Ken Bruen

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. — Ken Bruen

Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for. — Ken Bruen

She obviously had disappointing news in her teens and wasn't yet recovered. — Ken Bruen

Even Def Leppard couldn't get him out of his funk. When the Def couldn't crank you, it was way past time to shoot someone. — Ken Bruen

In London, I tended to hang with the fallen. — Ken Bruen

Laundromats ... like a waiting room for people who didn't go anywhere — Ken Bruen

Max couldn't believe he'd fallen for her. If he'd just had a thing for flat-chested women none of this would have happened. — Ken Bruen

I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it's sharp as a nun on her second sherry. — Ken Bruen

Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too. — Ken Bruen

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

Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good. — Ken Bruen

I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange." (Dale Cooper, in Twin Peaks) — Ken Bruen

He looked old, like a stranger. He was someone else, someone whom he could easily hate. (Tom Pitts, Piggyback) — Ken Bruen

The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour. — Ken Bruen

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss. — Ken Bruen

I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug. — Ken Bruen

Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour. — Ken Bruen

It's said the difference between one friend and none is infinity. — Ken Bruen

You'd test the patience of a saint. — Ken Bruen

Expect nothing, and by Christ, you're entitled to even less. — Ken Bruen

I get through some print. — Ken Bruen

-it's life... In all its granite hardness. — Ken Bruen

The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer! — Ken Bruen