“After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out...” — Ken Bruen Quote

“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?”

“I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.”

“I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.”

“Okay, I've admitted to drinking too much. Okay, so I'm dealing with it.”

“The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.”

“I did an interview and admitted I was embarrassed about how many takeaways I'd been feeding the kids. I got a bit of backlash!”