I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.
No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it hap… - Roddy Doyle
No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it hap…
- Roddy Doyle
If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a h… - Roddy Doyle
If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a h…
To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true. - Roddy Doyle
To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time. - Roddy Doyle
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk. - Roddy Doyle
I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.
When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else. - Roddy Doyle
When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it. - Roddy Doyle
You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.
Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph. Unt… - Roddy Doyle
Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph. Unt…
Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal. - Roddy Doyle
Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.
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