Colm Toibin Quotes

I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 30, 1955

Topics

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I definitely did look back into the past when I was a teenager for transgender icons, like a famous model called Tula in the 1970s-'80s who starred as a 'Bond' girl.

Andreja Pejic

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The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.

Menachem Begin

PeopleEndGenerationDebtNever

Pay in the acting world hasn't kept up with inflation.

Maxine Peake

WorldActingPayUpInflationKept

Wine is bottled poetry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.

Robert Mondavi

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I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.' I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

Angelina Jolie

PeopleThinkWhiteSayFlagUp

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

Stephen R. Donaldson

OldDirtStartingMayCommonAwful

I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among people like that.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

WomenLivePeopleArtistEverything

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

Michael Zaslow

YouWayMysteriousTurnPointSure

I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

Missy Elliott

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People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.

Joyce Carol Oates

PeoplePageKnowAwayPublishThrow

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

Dierks Bentley

LifeGoodLiveLive LifeHandsYou

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