Quotes by : Roddy Doyle

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full....

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get....

If you were going to be best friends with anyone - Kevin - you had to hate a lot of other people, the....

Mary,' said her mother. 'We don't like sarcasm ' 'You mightn't like it,' said Mary. 'But I love it.

Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head....

We parked our bikes on verges so they could graze.

She’s happier than Nicola. That’s probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for....

I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened....

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.