Roddy Doyle Quotes - Page 2

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

My parents were sixty years married.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind.

The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.

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'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

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.

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

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

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

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

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

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

I wasn't even aware of the Year of the Family. I couldn't give a toss. These things - the year of the family, the year of the three-legged dog. I think it's all trash.