Roddy Doyle Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.”

“The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.”

“I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.”

“Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.”

“Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.”

“I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.”

“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.”

“When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'”

“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.”

“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.”