Colm Toibin Quotes

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicI AmWritingImpossibleNever

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'

Jerry Leiber

ChangePeopleSongMarketingWhite

I don't think people realize how much I love basketball. A lot of people think because of this idiotic comment I made that I love baseball and don't like basketball. Baseball came first because if you grew up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, that was the No. 1 thing. But if you have more than one kid, you love them both.

Jerry Reinsdorf

LoveBaseballPeopleBasketballYou

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

Maya Hawke

DayEvery DaySameGoneDifferent

It's kind of interesting when you sign on to a show because you're basically signing on to play a character because you only really see the first episode of the show.

Megan Park

CharacterInterestingYouPlayKind

The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.

John Ortberg

GodGratitudePeopleFruitSpirit

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

Johnny Carson

WillNeverLittleBigWordUse

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

John Updike

MorningDayProgressMeThrough

We were definitely not rich, but we were not poor. My mum always came home from work and did everything so that we ate well.

Riyad Mahrez

WorkHomeRichPoorEverythingWell

In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good time.

Mary Badham

GoodTimeHaving A Good TimePlaying

I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.

Minoru Yamasaki

WishKnowSometimesEverythingUs

There's no truth anymore.

Johnny Depp

TruthAnymore

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Doug Larson

OpportunityTimeSometimesUpAway

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