Phrase by 'Colm Toibin'
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I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing softly down. Growing up, the 'Our Father' was lovely, made for me, the 'Hail Mary' was gorgeous, and 'Glory Be to the Father' was an absolute nightmare.
Author: Colm Toibin - Irish NovelistMe , Moment , Father , Down
I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.
Author: Colm Toibin - Irish NovelistPeople , Feel , Peace , Loved
I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.
Author: Colm Toibin - Irish NovelistWar , Mountains , Place , Village
I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.
Author: Colm Toibin - Irish NovelistNever , Book , Violence , Nationalism
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.
Author: Colm Toibin - Irish NovelistView , Good , Men , Women
In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.
Author: Colm Toibin - Irish NovelistMe , Art , Beauty , Travel
The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.
Author: Colm Toibin - Irish NovelistMe , People , Feel , Man
In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile.
Author: Colm Toibin - Irish NovelistLife , Writing , Creation , Strange
I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.
Author: Colm Toibin - Irish NovelistLife , Day , Every Day , Barcelona
John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.
Author: Colm Toibin - Irish NovelistMe , Write , Things , Same
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