12-steps Quote by Roddy Doyle

“Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it…

— Roddy Doyle

“It was frightening, though, how little time you got. You only became yourself when you were twenty-three or twenty-four. A few years later, you…

— Roddy Doyle

The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.

— Roddy Doyle

“Terror. That was it.”

— Roddy Doyle

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I…

— Roddy Doyle

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

— Roddy Doyle

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

— Roddy Doyle

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to…

— Roddy Doyle

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…

— Roddy Doyle

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if…

— Roddy Doyle

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little…

— Roddy Doyle

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

— Roddy Doyle