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" I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world. "
Roddy Doyle
Real World
Sure
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" I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires. "
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" It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say. "
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" Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child. "
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" I like naming characters. "
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" 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. "
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" Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day. "
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" It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time. "
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" Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing. "
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" When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea. "
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" Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal. "
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Some
" If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far. "
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" 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. "
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Story
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" 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. "
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" If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing. "
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" When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.' "
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Music
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" 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. "
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You Can Do It
World
Musicians
" My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do. "
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Me
Feel
Come
" I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk. "
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People
Believe
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