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You Quotes by Roddy Doyle
- I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.
- When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention…
- If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look…
- When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
- I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has…
- When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
- It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.
- No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually,…
- Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt…
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