Authors
- Willie Carson - Photo-journalist and author
- Joyce Cary - Author, two of his novels were made into films: The Horse's Mouth (1958) starring Sir Alec Guinness and Mister Johnson (1990)
- Seamus Deane - Writer
- Richard Doherty - Catholic Unionist/Royal Ulster Constabulary reservist, writer, military historian
- Seamus Heaney - Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995
- Nell McCafferty - Journalist, playwright, civil rights campaigner and feminist
- Eamonn McCann - Journalist, civil rights campaigner and socialist
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“Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves—that’s the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives—experiences so great and moving that it doesn’t seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
“Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to write catapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.”
—Fannie Hurst (1889–1968)