Roddy Doyle - Best Quotes

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write I would put music on and wonder to myself – am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'

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Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Roddy Doyle

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write I would put music on and wonder to myself – am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour not just writing.

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.