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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 whiskey kicked like a mugger.
— 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
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
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
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
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
You'd test the patience of a saint.
— Ken Bruen
I get through some print.
— Ken Bruen
-it's life... In all its granite hardness.
— Ken Bruen