Colm Toibin Quotes

Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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GoodAgeCitySolitudeEveningYou

Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.

Jessye Norman

EducationLoveCommunityTimeEnjoy

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.' And then there are the letters from adults who say, 'This is such a good book; why did you write it for teens?'

Matthew Tobin Anderson

GoodMeWritingBookThank YouYou

I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.

Sue Grafton

ChildrenImpossibleHusbandKnowSee

With 'Bangarang,' I didn't make any announcement, no campaign. I just put it on my Facebook and some other places. That's how I've done everything with my previous records. I've always kept it organic.

Skrillex

DonePlacesAlwaysEverythingJust

I've always been kind of a - you know, I have my moments, where I can be Tommy, and then I flip a switch; when you're on stage, you turn into this other personality.

Tommy Lee

PersonalityMomentsYouI CanKnow

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

Robin Williams

LoveToughAudienceKidsI Love

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

CreativeSayingProcessInspiration

I've known since I was 12 that I wanted to write. My father was a teacher, and there were so many books around, it seemed natural to pick them up.

Michael Robotham

FatherTeacherWriteUpNatural

If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.

Chuck Palahniuk

BetterIcebergBeenWouldMadeMuch

We should all be allies to ideas or people or initiatives that we don't necessarily have a real knowledge in.

Bozoma Saint John

KnowledgePeopleIdeasRealAllies

As long as I do not take myself too seriously, I should not be too badly off.

Prince Charles

MyselfLongSeriouslyTakeOffToo

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

Scott Bakula

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