Roddy Doyle Quotes

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.
Roddy Doyle

Good, Doubt, Done

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.'
Roddy Doyle

Music, Time, Teacher

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.
Roddy Doyle

Wanted, Speak, Universe

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
Roddy Doyle

Write, Growing, System

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
Roddy Doyle

Writing, Else, Nobody

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

Sea, Stand, Grow

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Nationality: Irish

Born: May 8, 1958

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