Colm Toibin Citas

• Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

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  Country, Running, Military

  "Colm Tóibín, novelist - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2013.

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• All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

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  Writing, Manipulation, Realizing

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• Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

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  Ordinary, Way, Becoming

  "This Week in Fiction: Colm Tóibín" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2013.

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• Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

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  Strong, Writing, Suffering

  "Colm Tóibín, novelist - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2013.

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• If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

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  Cheer, Insane, Biographies

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Escribí todos los días entre los 12 y los 20 años, cuando dejé de hacerlo porque me fui a Barcelona, donde la vida era demasiado emocionante para escribir.

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  Writing, Age, Barcelona

  "You can take the man out of Ireland". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2009.

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• While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.

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  Lying, Intelligent, Self

  "History students will no longer tolerate or believe grand narratives" by Colm Toibin, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

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• I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

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  Should Have, Personality, Should

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• Algunos de nuestros amores y vínculos son elementales y están más allá de nuestra elección, y por esa misma razón vienen aderezados con dolor y pesar y necesidad y vacío y un sentimiento tan cercano a la ira como nunca seré capaz de manejar.

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  Pain, Regret, Attachment

  "The Empty Family: Stories". Book by Colm Toibin, October 1, 2010.

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• Tengo que escribir un primer borrador con pluma estilográfica antes de mecanografiarlo como un segundo.

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  Writing, Firsts, Fountain

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• You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

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  Real, Hogar, Escuela

  "You can take the man out of Ireland". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2009.

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• It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.

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  World, Treasure, Matter

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• Las frases que escribo tienen sus raíces en la canción y la poesía, y se orientan por la música y la pintura, tanto como por la necesidad de impartir mera información, o reflejar cualquier cosa. No soy un escritor realista, aunque lo parezca.

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  Song, Writing, Mirrors

  "Exclusive Interview: Colm Toibin Talks About His New Story Collection". Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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• I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening. Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly.

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  Children, Sleep, Needs

  "Colm Tóibín, novelist - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2013.

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• I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.

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  Strong, Imagination, Visuals

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• She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.

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  Lonely, Ideas, World

  Colm Toibin (2012). “The Empty Family: Stories”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• El problema es que una vez que has escrito el primer párrafo y has pensado en cómo será el resto de la historia, ya no tienes nada que hacer. Para el primer borrador, escribo a mano alzada con plumas estilográficas desechables en la parte derecha del cuaderno, y luego reescribo algunas frases y párrafos en la parte izquierda.

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  Notebook, Writing, Hands

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• Creo que la ficción se presta más al desorden que al ideal, y juega bien con las ironías que rodean lo que sucede frente a lo que debería suceder.

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  Thinking, Play, Fiction

  Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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• Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'

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  Art, Writing, Play

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• It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

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  Book, Important, Thirds

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• Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

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  Block, Ideas, Long

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• in skies of deepening blue the moon, heaven's queen was now afloat

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  Queens, Moon, Blue

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• John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.

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  Writing, Taught

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• Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight into the creative process itself, and into Philip Roth's high calling as a great American artist. The book is, in some ways, a radical rereading of Roth's life and his work. It is impossible, by the end, not to feel a tender admiration for Roth as a novelist and indeed for Claudia Roth Pierpont as an empathetic and brilliant critic.

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  Inteligente, Real, Libro

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• I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that the truth should be spoken at least once in the world. Because the world is a place of silence, the sky at night when the birds have gone is a vast silent place. Words will make the slightest difference to the sky at night. They will not brighten it or make it less strange. And the day too has its own deep indifference to anything that is said.

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  Night, Sky, Differences

  Colm Toibin (2014). “The Testament of Mary: A Novel”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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