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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“One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and
metaphor.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
“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)
“No man’s thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)