Top 31 Quotes by Roddy Doyle

About Roddy Doyle

These are some quotes by Irish author Roddy Doyle Novelist, who was born on May 8, 1958.

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

Roddy Doyle

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

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

Roddy Doyle

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

Roddy Doyle

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.

Roddy Doyle

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

Roddy Doyle

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

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

Roddy Doyle

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

Roddy Doyle

I like naming characters.

I like naming characters.

Roddy Doyle

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

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

Roddy Doyle

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Roddy Doyle

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