Roddy Doyle

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.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.