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Roddy Doyle
Profession : Novelist
Birth : May 8, 1958
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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.
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.
Roddy Doyle
Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.
Roddy Doyle
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.
Roddy Doyle
I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.
Roddy Doyle
My parents were sixty years married.
Roddy Doyle
I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.
Roddy Doyle
It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.
Roddy Doyle
When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
Roddy Doyle
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.
Roddy Doyle
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