89 Quotes by Roddy Doyle

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

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

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.

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.

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph, until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job.

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.

The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.

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.