Roddy Doyle Quotes

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• If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

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  Mother, Princess, Small Rooms

  "Writing Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" by Roddy Doyle, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

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• Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

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  Ideas, Good Ideas

  "Roddy Doyle's rules for writers". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph. Until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job.

  Roddy Doyle

  Jobs, Writing, Space

  "Roddy Doyle's rules for writers". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

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  Believe, People, Term

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• 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.

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  Book, People, Doubt

  "Overlong, overrated and unmoving: Roddy Doyle's verdict on James Joyce's Ulysses" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2004.

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• To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

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  Oxygen, Important, Would Be

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• Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

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  People, Trying, Looks

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• 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.

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  Stories, Might, Matter

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• When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

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  Writing, Thinking, Pages

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• The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths.

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  Character, Mouths, Way

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• 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.

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  Sexy, Jobs, Dublin

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

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  Growing Up, Dark, Differences

  Roddy Doyle (1995). “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha”, p.243, Penguin

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• The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

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  Problem, Burden, Being Irish

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• Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

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  Suicide, Photograph, Favourite

  "Roddy Doyle's rules for writers". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

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  Honesty, Hands, Lines

  "Yeats Is Dead! by Anthony Cronin, Roddy Doyle et al, Joseph O'Connor". www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2001.

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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.

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  Home, Mean, Looks

  "What keeps Roddy rooted" by Nicci Gerrard, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2001.

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• 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.

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  People, Example, Lucky

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• 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, the - 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.

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  Kids, Thinking, Games

  "Roddy Doyle's Man Of Ireland At The End Of The Road". "Morning Edition" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 20, 2010.

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

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  Writing, School, Endeavour

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• Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

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  Children, Cutting, Adults

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• My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

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  Want, Novel, Feels

  "What keeps Roddy rooted" by Nicci Gerrard, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2001.

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• It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

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  Children, Meetings, Knows

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• My parents were sixty years married.

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  Years, Parent, Married

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• It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

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  Book, Hard

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• Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

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  Dream, Nice

  Roddy Doyle (1993). “Paddy Clarke, ha-ha-ha”, Harvill Secker

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