Colm Toibin

Look at Austen. In her novels, you get a dance, followed by an encounter, followed by a letter, then a period of solitude. No flashbacks and no backstory. Let's have no more back story!

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These are some quotes by Irish author Colm Toibin Novelist, who was born on May 30, 1955.

Quotes by Colm Toibin

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

Colm Toibin

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People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.

Colm Toibin

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Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.

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