Irish - Novelist | May 8, 1958 -
When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
Roddy Doyle
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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.
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I like naming characters.
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Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.
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I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.
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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.
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Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.
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When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.
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I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.
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I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.
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My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.
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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.
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