There is blood in Mr. Ervine's 'Carson'; he knows nothing about Sir Edward Carson, of course, but his teeth are firmly fixed in the calf of someone's…

- Susan Mitchell

Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and re…

- Susan Mitchell

It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whippin…

- Susan Mitchell

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.

- Susan Mitchell

Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have t…

- Susan Mitchell

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

- Susan Mitchell

Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

- Susan Mitchell

Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.

- Susan Mitchell

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.

- Susan Mitchell