If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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