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The problem with being Irish ... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times. — Roddy Doyle

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk. — Roddy Doyle

I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen — Roddy Doyle

Head in the book. Nose sliding down the valley between the pages. — Roddy Doyle

They were joking, but it was a serious conversation. They were often like that, Mary and her granny, when they were alone together. — Roddy Doyle

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. — Roddy Doyle

We'll cry," she said. "An then we'll stop. Because it's only a house. — Roddy Doyle

One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn't a clue. A day is a fuckin' eternity — Roddy Doyle

Mary,' said her mother. 'We don't like sarcasm '
'You mightn't like it,' said Mary. 'But I love it. — Roddy Doyle

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else. — Roddy Doyle

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. — Roddy Doyle

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do. — Roddy Doyle

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say. — Roddy Doyle

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. — Roddy Doyle

She was in the book again and, by the time she got to page-turning time again, she'd forgetting I was there. — Roddy Doyle

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

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before. — Roddy Doyle

I was the ref. I was the ref they didn't know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win — Roddy Doyle

My parents were sixty years married. — Roddy Doyle

I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world. — Roddy Doyle

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal. — Roddy Doyle

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. — Roddy Doyle

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. — Roddy Doyle

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did. — Roddy Doyle

Jesus, she said. -Are you in there at all? -I am, Annie, I told her. -Bursting to get out. — Roddy Doyle

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them. — Roddy Doyle

Terror. That was it. — Roddy Doyle

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child. — Roddy Doyle

It often seemed that the trees were flu of people whispering
especially tonight. — Roddy Doyle

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. — Roddy Doyle

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day. — Roddy Doyle

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing. — Roddy Doyle

I like naming characters. — Roddy Doyle

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true. — Roddy Doyle

Do ghosts drink tea?
They don't, said Tansey. But this ghost would love to see a cup of tea in front of her. It'd be lovely. — Roddy Doyle

The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths. — Roddy Doyle

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

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty. — Roddy Doyle

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day. — Roddy Doyle

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones. — Roddy Doyle

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted. — Roddy Doyle

The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads. — Roddy Doyle

It's the only thing sexier than a sexy woman. A sexy woman cooking fuckin' sausages. — Roddy Doyle

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

We parked our bikes on verges so they could graze. — Roddy Doyle