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Novels Quotes by Colm Toibin
- 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 feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left…
- In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more…
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- Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. — Rita Mae Brown