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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 60 quotes by Colm Toibin Colm Tóibín (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkɔl ˠəmˠ t ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ] [KAH-lum toe-BEEN]; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet. Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He was hailed as a champion of minorities as he collected the... Read full biography of Colm Toibin → 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for... → 0 I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces. I hadn't... → 0 It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of... → 0 I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the... → 0 The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none... → 0 The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody.... → 0 The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere... → 0 I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing softly down.... → 0 I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in the... → 0 In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more... → 0 The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like... → 0 You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you... → 0 I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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