Dermot Healy Professions : Novelist Born : 1947 Died : June 29, 2014 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Dermot Healy Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you Dermot Healy truth-is lying I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people. Dermot Healy home writing people When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure. Dermot Healy cities teacher two There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it. Dermot Healy between much any reading Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors