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Colm Toibin has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that…
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I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think,…
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All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
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Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready…
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Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly,…
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I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
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I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
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I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.
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I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what…
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I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
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I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was…
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It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
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Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break…
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I appreciate what others have done in the past especially for my genre, and my style of singing. And they sure put…
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If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!
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I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.
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I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the…
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It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it…
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I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At…
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I put my foot in my mouth every time I'm interviewed.
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I'd love to do a Paul Greengrass movie, or something like that, that's a character-driven action film. I'd like someone to make…
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After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on…
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I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me…
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Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my…
— Emily Dickinson
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