I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M.… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“Here in this cemetery, which they began to stroll around once more, the state of not-knowing and not-feeling which belonged to the… — Colm Tóibín Cemetery Copy Share Image
Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now,… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“He stopped going to his own bed, waiting instead until Leander was ready for bed and then going to the room with… — Colm Tóibín Night Copy Share Image
I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the… — Colm Toibin Barcelona Copy Share Image
“...she still stopped when her mind moved towards real fear or dread or, worse, towards the thought that she was going to… — Colm Tóibín Fear Copy Share Image
You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and… — Colm Tóibín Deep sadness Copy Share Image
