Roddy Doyle quotes - page 2

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, the - 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. (Roddy Doyle)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do. View quote
Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle - Image
Photo: Christoph Rieger, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: Irish Novelist
Born: May 8, 1958
Quotes count: 30

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