Roddy Doyle Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Men, Glasses, Different

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• I like naming characters.

  Roddy Doyle

  Character

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• 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

  Writing, Ideas, Stories

  "Commitments" Author Pens Short Goodbyes To Youth". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 21, 2011.

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• Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

  Roddy Doyle

  Nine, Hours, Desks

  "Book Talk: Roddy Doyle and Irish ghosts". Interview with Pauline Askin, in.reuters.com. May 31, 2012.

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• She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind.

  Roddy Doyle

  Horse, Tea, Pot

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• The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.

  Roddy Doyle

  Europe, Lad

  The Commitments (1987) See James Brown 2

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• 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

  Men, Lovely, Age

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• 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

  Writing, Character, Want

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• 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

  Age, Might, Way

  "Commitments" Author Pens Short Goodbyes To Youth". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 21, 2011.

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• I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

  Roddy Doyle

  Book, Zombie, Vampire

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• I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

  Roddy Doyle

  Want

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

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• When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

  Roddy Doyle

  Growing Up, What Matters, Islands

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• When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

  Roddy Doyle

  Growing Up, Writing, Fiction

  "Roddy Doyle: the joy of teaching children to write" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

  Roddy Doyle

  Hands, Years, Musician

  "Sexy Dublin? It's a con" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2004.

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• I wasn't even aware of the Year of the Family. I couldn't give a toss. These things - the year of the family, the year of the three-legged dog. I think it's all trash.

  Roddy Doyle

  Family, Dog, Thinking

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