Author: Colm Toibin

Quotes

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

- Colm Toibin

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

- Colm Toibin

The best thing about New York is working late into the night. At 1 in the morning on a Saturday, to be still working, there's an immense satisfaction in being enclosed by it.

The best thing about New York is working late into the night. At 1 in the morning on a Saturday, to be still working, there's an immense satisfaction in being enclosed by it.

- Colm Toibin

I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.

I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.

- Colm Toibin

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.

- Colm Toibin

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