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Colm Tóibín, novelist – portrait of the artist, The Guardian (19 February 2013)

— Colm Tóibín

A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

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If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.

Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep – it can't be done abruptly.

I was brought up in a house where there was a great deal of silence.

I have a rule that I don't drink in New York because I don't want to wake up with a hangover and not be able to work.

I wanted to be a poet as a child and I have a wall in my study dedicated to poetry books, all in alphabetical order, that reminds me daily of my failure.

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