I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening. Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly.
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second. - Colm Toibin
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
- Colm Toibin
If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane. - Colm Toibin
If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.
Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and … - Colm Toibin
Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and …
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always li… - Colm Toibin
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always li…
I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point. - Colm Toibin
I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.
Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can. - Colm Toibin
Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.
Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died. - Colm Toibin
Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure. - Colm Toibin
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much. - Colm Toibin
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
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