Colm Toibin Quotes
Top 58 wise famous quotes and sayings by Colm Toibin
Colm Toibin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.
She would learn how to spend these hours. In the peace of these winter evenings, she would work out how she was going to live.
Describe character using dialogue. Describe character using what the characters see or do or think, but not what they had done or where they had been.
What she loved most about America, Eilis thought on these mornings, was how the heating was kept on all night.
She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.
I'm hungry." "We're all hungry. But, darling, you don't need to look hungry. Pretend you are full." "And
And then it occurred to her that she was already feeling that she would need to remember this room, her sister, this scene, as though from a distance.
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'
The details of what I told him were with me all the years in the same way as my hands or my arms were with me.
It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
The rest of the time he entertained all the guilt that wished to call, carried in by the wind through the darkness, to enter his spirit ...
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.
It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.
People's interest in glamour and clothes and nylon stockings and all those things were, when I was a little boy, the sort of world that I listened to.
We walk among them sometimes, the ones who have left us. They are filled with something that none of us knows yet. It is a mystery.
You will be hearing from me," she said, as he opened the door for her. "And you will find that when I am crossed I am very formidable.
Once more she noted the hectoring tone, as though she were a child, unable to make proper decisions.
What she would need to do in the days before she left and on the morning of her departure was smile, so that they would remember her smiling. *
In the meantime, when I wake in the night, I want more. I want what happened not to have happened, to have taken another course.
He was delighted by things, as he was delighted by her, and he had done nothing else ever but make that clear.
And, in return, when I get sick, you can come out and look after me when the others get fed up of me. That's what we are all for.
I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.