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Like Quotes by Colm Toibin
- I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
- I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some…
- I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces.…
- I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War…
- 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…
- The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and…
- 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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