“...in one of his Irish Times columns written under the name of Myles na gCopaleen, [Flann] O’Brien offered a service to readers… — Colm Tóibin Books Copy Share Image
My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name… — Colm Toibin About Copy Share Image
“The men could be easily distinguished as fellow Americans by the quality of their mustaches and the innocent and amicable expressions on… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
The best thing about New York is working late into the night. At 1 in the morning on a Saturday, to be… — Colm Toibin About Copy Share Image
If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane. — Colm Toibin Biographies Copy Share Image
..Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain… — Colm Toibin Able Copy Share Image
Describe character using dialogue. Describe character using what the characters see or do or think, but not what they had done or… — Colm Toibin Been Copy Share Image
“We live in a strange time,’ Electra said. ‘A time when the gods are fading. Some of us still see them but… — Colm Tóibín Different world Copy Share Image
“It was like the arrival of night when you knew that you would never see anything in daylight again.” — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“You must live with what you did,’ Leander said. ‘What you did is all you have.” — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me… — Colm Toibin America Copy Share Image
“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it… — Colm Toibin Children Copy Share Image
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your… — Colm Toibin Disposable Copy Share Image
“There was a time, I know, when I felt rage and I felt sorrow. But now I have lost what leads up… — Colm Tóibín Grief Copy Share Image
Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a… — Colm Toibin Campaign Copy Share Image
“I don't come out of an oral tradition, I come out of silence.” — Colm Tóibín Culture Copy Share Image
“He turned and looked at Henry. “Did you always know that you would write all these books?” “I know the next sentence,”… — Colm Tóibín Book Copy Share Image
“Imaginings and resonances and pain and small longings and prejudices. They mean nothing against the resolute hardness of the sea. They meant… — Colm Tóibín Nostalgia Copy Share Image
“The memory of my name will last longer than the lives of many men.” — Colm Tóibín Memory Copy Share Image
You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first… — Colm Toibin Actually Copy Share Image
People's interest in glamour and clothes and nylon stockings and all those things were, when I was a little boy, the sort… — Colm Toibin Boy Copy Share Image
Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight… — Colm Toibin Admiration Copy Share Image
“As his widow, she knew who she was and what she had inherited. She had loved him in her way and sometimes… — Colm Toibin Love Copy Share Image
