Quotes by : Colm Toibin

I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.

The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm....

Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends....

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your....

In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own....

I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered....

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting,....