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If water can be changed into wine and the dead can be brought back, then I want time pushed back.
— Colm Toibin
Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.
— Colm Keaveney
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.
— Colm Toibin
You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire
— Colm O'Rourke
more she thought about it the more she came
— Colm Toibin
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.
— Colm Toibin
What she loved most about America, Eilis thought on these mornings, was how the heating was kept on all night.
— Colm Toibin
She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.
— Colm Toibin
the problem for her was that she was on her own now and that she had no idea how to live.
— Colm Toibin
From now on the architects would take over as the high preists of this bourgeois city.
— Colm Toibin
You never know when the publicity people will feel it is a good time to release the film.
— Colm Meaney
I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only.
— Colm Meaney
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
— Colm Toibin
If words decorate the home of Being, then hands, and by extension art, are the sketch of Being.
— Colm Gillis
Memory fills my body as much as blood and bones.
— Colm Toibin
I'm hungry." "We're all hungry. But, darling, you don't need to look hungry. Pretend you are full." "And
— Colm Toibin
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.
— Colm Toibin
It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
— Colm Toibin
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.
— Colm Toibin
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
— Colm Toibin
When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock
— John B. Keane
Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.
— Colm Toibin
Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm.
— Colm Feore
It was like the arrival of night when you knew that you would never see anything in daylight again.
— Colm Toibin
It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.
— Colm Toibin
I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.
— Colm O'Rourke
I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.
— Colm Meaney
woman who had not told him or anybody
— Colm Toibin
I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
— Colm Toibin
I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.
— Colm Meaney
Once more she noted the hectoring tone, as though she were a child, unable to make proper decisions.
— Colm Toibin
Life is but a day and expresses mainly a single note.
— Colm Toibin
I do dead Canadians. If he's dead and he's Canadian and he's famous, I'll be playing him at some point.
— Colm Feore
If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.
— Colm Toibin
If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.
— Colm Keaveney
I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.
— Colm Toibin
There were always children, Miss
— Colm Toibin
Dreams belong to each of us alone, just as pain does.
— Colm Toibin
What is hard to understand is that our dreams matter
— Colm Toibin
I remember too much; I am like the air on a calm day as it holds itself still, letting nothing escape.
— Colm Toibin
If you don't make mistakes, they'll notice you and they'll get to like you,' she added. Eilis
— Colm Toibin
He was delighted by things, as he was delighted by her, and he had done nothing else ever but make that clear.
— Colm Toibin
We can all have plenty of lives, but there are limits. You never can tell what they are.
— Colm Toibin
I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.
— Colm Feore
It is terrible to be an unprotected being.
— Colm Toibin