Roddy Doyle Quotes

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.
Roddy Doyle

Experience, Words, Matter

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.
Roddy Doyle

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.
Roddy Doyle

Good, Often, Ideas

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

Enjoy, Books, Written

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.
Roddy Doyle

I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.
Roddy Doyle

Real, Sure, Eye

I like naming characters.
Roddy Doyle

Characters, Naming

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.
Roddy Doyle

Talk, Dialogue, Terms

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.
Roddy Doyle

Time, Character, Keep

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.
Roddy Doyle

Good, Experience, Story

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.
Roddy Doyle

Short, Write, Idea

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.
Roddy Doyle

Age, Done, Before

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.
Roddy Doyle

Different, Bald, Glasses

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.
Roddy Doyle

Great, Why, Last

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.
Roddy Doyle

Home, Excuses, Means

If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far.
Roddy Doyle

Family, Live, Enough

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
Roddy Doyle

Time, Sexy, Job

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.
Roddy Doyle

Great, Children, Meeting

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.
Roddy Doyle

Hard, Books, Close

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.
Roddy Doyle

Working, Days, Hours

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.
Roddy Doyle

My parents were sixty years married.
Roddy Doyle

Parents, Married, Sixty

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.
Roddy Doyle

Failure, Writing, Schools

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
Roddy Doyle

Sometimes, Child, Though

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

Problem, Times, Irish

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Born: May 8, 1958

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