Roddy Doyle Quotes
Top 45 wise famous quotes and sayings by Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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
They were joking, but it was a serious conversation. They were often like that, Mary and her granny, when they were alone together.
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.
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.
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.
She was in the book again and, by the time she got to page-turning time again, she'd forgetting I was there.
I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.
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
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.
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.
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.
To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.
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.
They don't, said Tansey. But this ghost would love to see a cup of tea in front of her. It'd be lovely.