Roddy Doyle Quotes

• 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.

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

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

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

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• My parents were sixty years married.

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

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

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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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• 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.’

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

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

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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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• 1982 - Red Smith