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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

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. — 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

On '24,' it says on the front page of your script: 'This script is for the production staff and cast. Please don't show it to anybody else.' — Colm Feore

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history. — Colm Meaney

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it. — 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

Finally, she let herself feel how much she had lost, how much she would miss. — 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

We keep our prices low and our manners high. -Miss Bartocci — Colm Toibin

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. — Colm Toibin

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.' — Colm Toibin

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can. — Colm Toibin

John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things. — 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

I don't come out of an oral tradition, I come out of silence. — 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

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 ... — Colm Toibin

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace. — Colm Toibin

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. — 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

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. — Colm Toibin

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. — Colm Toibin

woman who had not told him or anybody — Colm Toibin

Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you can't buy it. You either have it or you don't. — Colm Feore

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy. — Colm Meaney

I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination. — Colm Toibin

In skies of deepening blue the moon, heaven's queen was now afloat — 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

In every person there is the capacity to do something really special. — Colm O'Rourke

You learn, no matter what age you are, to keep things to yourself. — 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

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. — 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

'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical. — Colm Toibin

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for. — Colm Meaney

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

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country. — Colm Toibin

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. — Colm Toibin

If you don't make mistakes, they'll notice you and they'll get to like you,' she added. Eilis — Colm Toibin

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. — 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

Some people are nice and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer. -Rose — Colm Toibin

Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly. — Colm Toibin

You never know what way life goes. Some of it makes no sense at all. — Colm Toibin

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second. — Colm Toibin

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. — Colm Toibin

The digital revolution has changed the way we do things because you're not under that pressure that film is precious and film is expensive. — Colm Meaney

Time and patience would bring a snail to America,' he repeated. — Colm Toibin

We can all have plenty of lives, but there are limits. You never can tell what they are. — Colm Toibin

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. * — 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