Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyleis an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of ten novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 May 1958
age stories might
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.
oxygen important sentimental
To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.
jobs writing space
Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph, until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job.
men glasses dublin
I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.
europe lad
The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.
kids thinking games
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.
writing thinking pages
When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
believe people term
I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.
ideas good-ideas
Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.
children meetings knows
It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.
people trying normal
Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.
stories might matter
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.
sexy jobs dublin
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.
book people doubt
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.