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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.
— Roddy Doyle love
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 I had a mohican.
— Roddy Doyle man
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
— Roddy Doyle fiction
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 dump most of the time.
— Roddy Doyle time
If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far.
— Roddy Doyle people
I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.
— Roddy Doyle time
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 at how the world is changing.
— Roddy Doyle world
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 to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.
— Roddy Doyle world
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.
— Roddy Doyle writing
Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.
— Roddy Doyle people
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, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.
— Roddy Doyle art
When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
— Roddy Doyle you
Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
— Roddy Doyle time
The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
— Roddy Doyle time
Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.
— Roddy Doyle murder
I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.
— Roddy Doyle books
I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.
— Roddy Doyle people
My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.
— Roddy Doyle novel
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 that any of those people were really moved by it.
— Roddy Doyle books
When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'
— Roddy Doyle writing
I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.
— Roddy Doyle experience
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.
— Roddy Doyle art
It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.
— Roddy Doyle children
My parents were sixty years married.
— Roddy Doyle parents
When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
— Roddy Doyle writing
Im going to sound like an old man but at my age, its lovely doing something that youve never done before.
— Roddy Doyle love

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