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Write Quotes by Colm Toibin
- I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is…
- I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
- I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to…
- John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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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