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Top 25 Ken Bruen Quotes (2025 Update)

Ken Bruen Quote: “There’ll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you’ll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.”

1. “There’ll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you’ll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “You’d test the patience of a saint.”

2. “You’d test the patience of a saint.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “Hemingway had a handy dictum. You want to know if something is morally right? Listen to your stomach. If it sits like broken glass, then it’s morally wrong.”

3. “Hemingway had a handy dictum. You want to know if something is morally right? Listen to your stomach. If it sits like broken glass, then it’s morally wrong.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “Expect nothing, and by Christ, you’re entitled to even less.”

4. “Expect nothing, and by Christ, you’re entitled to even less.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “By the holy, Jack Taylor. I was beginning to think you were a rumor running around as a fact.”

5. “By the holy, Jack Taylor. I was beginning to think you were a rumor running around as a fact.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “Existence is sometimes what a forward artillery observer sees of enemy lines through field glasses. A distant and troubling view brought suddenly into focus with a wealth of obscene detail. It.”

6. “Existence is sometimes what a forward artillery observer sees of enemy lines through field glasses. A distant and troubling view brought suddenly into focus with a wealth of obscene detail. It.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.”

7. “Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “Friday night, I resolved to have a quiet time. Two pints and a chips carry-home. Alas, the pints got away from me and I hit the top shelf.”

8. “Friday night, I resolved to have a quiet time. Two pints and a chips carry-home. Alas, the pints got away from me and I hit the top shelf.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “Max couldn’t believe he’d fallen for her. If he’d just had a thing for flat-chested women none of this would have happened.”

9. “Max couldn’t believe he’d fallen for her. If he’d just had a thing for flat-chested women none of this would have happened.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don’t want to make a fuss.”

10. “And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don’t want to make a fuss.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.”

11. “Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “Dennis Wheatley.”

12. “Dennis Wheatley.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it’s sharp as a nun on her second sherry.”

13. “I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it’s sharp as a nun on her second sherry.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.”

14. “The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “Even Def Leppard couldn’t get him out of his funk. When the Def couldn’t crank you, it was way past time to shoot someone.”

15. “Even Def Leppard couldn’t get him out of his funk. When the Def couldn’t crank you, it was way past time to shoot someone.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “You ever read Anton LaVey?”

16. “You ever read Anton LaVey?”

Ken Bruen Quote: “He drank, not because of the darkness in him but the darkness in others.”

17. “He drank, not because of the darkness in him but the darkness in others.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “He was in his mid-thirties, with a posture that suggested a hundred.”

18. “He was in his mid-thirties, with a posture that suggested a hundred.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “I get through some print.”

19. “I get through some print.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “Straley, Gary Phillips, Jim Nesbitt, Brian McGilloway, Adrian McKinty, Tony Black. Vinny said, ‘Nice list.”

20. “Straley, Gary Phillips, Jim Nesbitt, Brian McGilloway, Adrian McKinty, Tony Black. Vinny said, ‘Nice list.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “I’ve always been a reader; no matter what else I’ve lost, I hung on to that.”

21. “I’ve always been a reader; no matter what else I’ve lost, I hung on to that.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “I didn’t know what to say. Said ‘I don’t know what to say.”

22. “I didn’t know what to say. Said ‘I don’t know what to say.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “Books. I needed to ground myself and nothing, not even the Jay, quite does it like books. I don’t always have the focus to read them but I sure do need them around.”

23. “Books. I needed to ground myself and nothing, not even the Jay, quite does it like books. I don’t always have the focus to read them but I sure do need them around.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “Roberts knocked, heard: ‘Enter.’ Thought: ‘Wanker.”

24. “Roberts knocked, heard: ‘Enter.’ Thought: ‘Wanker.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “Roberts had watched a documentary on Francis Bacon. He especially liked Bacon’s cry when he entered a club in Soho: ‘Champagne for my real friends. Real pain for my sham friends’.”

25. “Roberts had watched a documentary on Francis Bacon. He especially liked Bacon’s cry when he entered a club in Soho: ‘Champagne for my real friends. Real pain for my sham friends’.”

Ken Bruen Quote: “I don’t do sun. I’m delighted with the lack of rain and anything over is over-indulgence. I don’t trust it. Makes you yearn. For things that cannot last.”

26. “I don’t do sun. I’m delighted with the lack of rain and anything over is over-indulgence. I don’t trust it. Makes you yearn. For things that cannot last.”

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