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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
#Excuses
#Home
#Look
#Make
#World
I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.
- Roddy Doyle
#Eye
#Make
#Real
#Sure
#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
#Attention
#Pay
#Speak
#Universe
#World
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
- Roddy Doyle
#Fiction
#Growing Up
#Never
#System
#Up
The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
- Roddy Doyle
#Back
#Being
#Burden
#Irish
#Your
I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.
- Roddy Doyle
#About
#Enjoy
#Gothic
#Like
#Well
I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.
- Roddy Doyle
#Believe
#I Believe That
#I Believe
#See
When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
- Roddy Doyle
#Just
#Me
#Nobody
#Page
#Writing
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
#Done
#Doubt
#Good
#Know
#People
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
#Big
#Job
#Place
#Sexy
#Time
Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
- Roddy Doyle
#Being
#Child
#Cut
#Sometimes
#Though
When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
- Roddy Doyle
#Grow
#Island
#Matters
#Sea
#Stand
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
#Day
#Music
#Myself
#Teacher
#Time
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
#Go
#Good
#Just Because
#Way
Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.
- Roddy Doyle
#Better
#Good Ideas
#Good
#Ideas
#Often
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