Roddy Doyle Quotes

• I said one Hail Mary and four Our Fathers, because I preferred the Our Father to the Hail Mary and it was longer and better.

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• ‘A song belongs to no man,’ said Joey The Lips. ‘The Lord holds copyright on all songs.’ ‘Me arse,’ said Outspan.

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• The Irish are the niggers of Europe… An’ Dubliners are the niggers of Ireland… An’ the northside Dubliners are the niggers o’ Dublin—Say it loud. I’m black and I’m proud.

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

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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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• Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

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• I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.

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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.

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• 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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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• 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.

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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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• I like naming characters.

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Roddy Doyle (35)

Birth:	8th May, 1958
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Dramatist, Novelist, Screenwriter

About

Doyle is the author of nine adult novels, seven books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into successful films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991.

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