"In Ireland, novels and plays still have a……" — Colm Toibin
"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 powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile."
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49 Quotes by Colm Toibin
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I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should…
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I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means,…
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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…
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Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved…
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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…
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I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions…
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I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where…
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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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