Roddy Quotes

You've got to stay low to avoid those elbows of hers. - Eleia Roddy

Your thoughts are the strangest place that you've ever been... Stranger even than Los Angeles/It's like a cinema where they never ask you to leave. - Roddy Woomble

You have to let go of the bad memories as well as the good ones. It made me sick, but beating myself up about it isn't going to do me or anybody else in here any good. That's why I have to move on. - Roddy White

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

When you are writing for fiction everything is in each word and each individual word is a literary decision, whereas if you are writing for the screen and you have a character walking into a room it is because she walks into the room: it doesn't matter if it isn't glorious literature. - Roddy Doyle

When Pfeiffer gets hot, everybody gets hot. She has the ability to hit that big shot in big moments. - Eleia Roddy

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else. - Roddy Doyle

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

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's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe. - 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.' - Roddy Doyle