Frasi di Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín è uno scrittore e critico letterario irlandese pluripremiato, nonché noto autore LGBT.



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✵ 30. Maggio 1955
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Colm Tóibín: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

World of Colm Tóibín, writer http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/9108553/World-of-Colm-Toibin-writer.html, The Daily Telegraph (27 February 2012)

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

Colm Tóibín, novelist – portrait of the artist http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/19/colm-toibin-novelist-portrait-artist, The Guardian (19 February 2013)

“I was the worst barman who ever lived. My pints of Guinness were unholy.”

The best holiday reads http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/17/best-holiday-reads, The Guardian (17 June 2011)

“The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, The Heather Blazing. He said that, together with the previous novel, it represented a diptych about the aftermath of Irish independence. I simply hadn't known that – and I loved the grandeur of the word "diptych."”

I went around quite snooty for a few days, thinking: "I wrote a diptych."
Colm Tóibín, novelist – portrait of the artist http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/19/colm-toibin-novelist-portrait-artist, The Guardian (19 February 2013)

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

Colm Tóibín, novelist – portrait of the artist http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/19/colm-toibin-novelist-portrait-artist, The Guardian (19 February 2013)

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

Colm Tóibín, novelist – portrait of the artist http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/19/colm-toibin-novelist-portrait-artist, The Guardian (19 February 2013)

“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.”

World of Colm Tóibín, writer http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/9108553/World-of-Colm-Toibin-writer.html, The Daily Telegraph (27 February 2012)

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

Colm Tóibín: writers and their families http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/17/colm-toibin-how-i-killed-my-mother, The Guardian (17 February 2012)

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