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First Quotes by Colm Toibin
- I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
- I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen.…
- I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in the…
- I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a…
- The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing…
- When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time... Of course it's not remotely like seeing a baby for…
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- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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