89 Quotes by Roddy Doyle

She’d tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

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.

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.

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

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn’t yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

I don’t work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

Contact J. Rabbitte, 118, Chestnut Ave., Dublin 21. Rednecks and southsiders need not apply.

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

They were joking, but it was a serious conversation. They were often like that, Mary and her granny, when they were alone together.