Roddy Doyle

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

— Roddy Doyle

#child #chord #cut #seem #sometimes

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

— Roddy Doyle

#being #burden #having #irish #problem

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

#any #books #could #done #doubt

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

— Roddy Doyle

#did #exam #fiction #growing #growing up

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

— Roddy Doyle

#i #just #me #nobody #only

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

— Roddy Doyle

#grow up #how #island #matters #sea

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

— Roddy Doyle

#because #books #close #hard #i

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#good #good ideas #ideas #often #ones

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

— Roddy Doyle

#books #enjoy #fiction #gothic #i

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

— Roddy Doyle

#commissions #i #i do #want #work