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.

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

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 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 wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

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

I like naming characters.

I like naming characters.

Roddy Doyle

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

Roddy Doyle

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