Quotes by Roddy Doyle

About Roddy Doyle:

Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of ten novels for adults, seven 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 his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
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Do ghosts drink tea? They don't, said Tansey. But this ghost would love to see a cup of tea in front of her. It'd be lovely.

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Gloria screamed, but nothing came out. She could feel the scream in her throat, but it was clinging there, too scared to climb out of her mouth. Raymond might have screamed, too--he wasn't sure. His face was an exploding red ball--that was what it fe...

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I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

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We parked our bikes on verges so they could graze.

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Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it was a soft spongy light unfolding, and you understood, it made sense forever…

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I was the ref. I was the ref they didn’t know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win

Roddy Doyle

If you were going to be best friends with anyone - Kevin - you had to hate a lot of other people, the two of you, together. It made you better friends.

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I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen

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It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

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She’s happier than Nicola. That’s probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it always too late? Probably. She doesn’t know.

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One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue. A day is a fuckin’ eternity

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She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

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

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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...

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My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

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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.

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When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

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When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameRoddy Doyle
  • DescriptionIrish author
  • AliasesRuaidhrí Ó Dúill
  • BornMay 8, 1958
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Writer; Novelist; Playwright
  • WorksPaddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha; The Commitments; The Woman Who Walked Into Doors; Paula Spencer; The Van; The Snapper (novel)