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From Quotes by Colm Toibin
- Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a…
- Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up…
- I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much…
- 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…
- You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world…
- The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need…
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