“You have asked two questions, and I will answer them separately,” Gray said. “Trollope writes with precision and feeling about love and… — Colm Tóibín Love Copy Share Image
“I saw him trying to struggle and call out. But because of the robe, he could not move and his voice could… — Colm Tóibín Agamemnon Copy Share Image
People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or… — Colm Toibin About Copy Share Image
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second. — Colm Toibin Draft Copy Share Image
“If water can be changed into wine and the dead can be brought back, then I want time pushed back.” — Colm Tóibín Time Copy Share Image
It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world. — Colm Toibin Books Copy Share Image
“Even when she woke in the night and thought about it, she did not allow herself to conclude that she did not… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was… — Colm Toibin Age Copy Share Image
Look at Austen. In her novels, you get a dance, followed by an encounter, followed by a letter, then a period of… — Colm Toibin Austen Copy Share Image
“I do not care much about the mysteries of the universe, unless they come to me in words, or in music maybe,… — Colm Tóibín Beauty Copy Share Image
“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull… — Colm Tóibín Happiness Copy Share Image
“His consolation was that at least he had known her as the world had not, and the pain of living without her… — Colm Tóibín Life 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 Away from home Copy Share Image
I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or… — Colm Toibin About Copy Share Image
“She wondered if she was alone in having nothing between the dullness of her own days and the sheer brilliance of this… — Colm Tóibín Life Copy Share Image
It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book. — Colm Toibin Book Copy Share Image
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as… — Colm Toibin I am Copy Share Image
“We had used up all of our time. And I wondered if that made any difference to my mother then, as she… — Colm Tóibín Life 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
“It was my companion, my strange friend who woke me in the night and again in the morning and who stayed close… — Colm Tóibín Friendship Copy Share Image
“Andersen was perhaps too young to know how memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how… — Colm Tóibín Memory Copy Share Image
“She has gone back to Brooklyn,' her mother would say. And, as the train rolled past Macmire Bridge on its way towards… — Colm Toibín Decision making Copy Share Image
“The rest of the time he entertained all the guilt that wished to call, carried in by the wind through the darkness,… — Colm Tóibín Darkness Copy Share Image
I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do… — Colm Toibin Anecdotes Copy Share Image
“if you want witnesses then I am one and I can tell you now, when you say that he redeemed the world,… — Colm Tóibín Evocative Copy Share Image
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