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  1. "[The biggest myth about writing] is that there’s any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country."

    ~ Colm Tóibín, born today, 1955.

    #ColmTóibín #Today #Quote

  2. "[The biggest myth about writing] is that there’s any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country."

    ~ Colm Tóibín, born today, 1955.

    #ColmTóibín #Today #Quote

  3. 'As she dropped by on her way back from a performance, I loved asking her if there had been a big crowd at the play. This is what you did in Enniscorthy, where I'm from. If anyone has been out anywhere--at mass, a football match, downtown, in Dublin, to the pub--you asked them: "Was there a big crowd?"'

    📖 A Guest at the Feast: Essays by Colm Tóibín, p. 15

    #bookstodon #ColmTóibín

  4. 'As she dropped by on her way back from a performance, I loved asking her if there had been a big crowd at the play. This is what you did in Enniscorthy, where I'm from. If anyone has been out anywhere--at mass, a football match, downtown, in Dublin, to the pub--you asked them: "Was there a big crowd?"'

    📖 A Guest at the Feast: Essays by Colm Tóibín, p. 15

    #bookstodon #ColmTóibín

  5. "Andersen was perhaps too young to know how memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning until it is well past and lost" —Colm Tóibín, The Master

    #books #reading #ColmTóibín #literature #IrishLiterature #HenryJames #memory

  6. "Andersen was perhaps too young to know how memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning until it is well past and lost" —Colm Tóibín, The Master

    #books #reading #ColmTóibín #literature #IrishLiterature #HenryJames #memory

  7. "When everyone else had fire in their blood, he was calm. So calm that he could neither read nor think, merely bask in the freedom that the afternoon offered, savour, as deeply as he could, this quiet and strange treachery, his own surreptitious withdrawal from the world."

    —Colm Tóibín, The Master

    #books #reading #ColmTóibín #literature #IrishLiterature #HenryJames

  8. "When everyone else had fire in their blood, he was calm. So calm that he could neither read nor think, merely bask in the freedom that the afternoon offered, savour, as deeply as he could, this quiet and strange treachery, his own surreptitious withdrawal from the world."

    —Colm Tóibín, The Master

    #books #reading #ColmTóibín #literature #IrishLiterature #HenryJames

  9. [16:23] 'It was the end of the world' - Colm Tóibín on LA fires

    Irish writer Colm Tóibín, who is currently living in Los Angeles, has said he thought the wildfires currently devastating the city were like "the end of the world".

    rte.ie/news/2025/0114/1490777-

    #Irish #ColmTóibín #LosAngeles

  10. "The air, as dusk came, grew yellow, like the fog in Prufrock that licks its tongue into the corners of the evening. At five o’clock, oddly enough, tennis balls I had ordered online were delivered."

    Colm Tóibín on his experience of the fire in Los Angeles, and reflecting on its random cultural destuction. The Thomas Mann House intact, Gary Indiana's personal library, just tranferred from New York, lost.

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/co

    #ColmToibin #LosAngelesFire #ThomasMann #GaryIndiana

  11. "The air, as dusk came, grew yellow, like the fog in Prufrock that licks its tongue into the corners of the evening. At five o’clock, oddly enough, tennis balls I had ordered online were delivered."

    Colm Tóibín on his experience of the fire in Los Angeles, and reflecting on its random cultural destuction. The Thomas Mann House intact, Gary Indiana's personal library, just tranferred from New York, lost.

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/co

    #ColmToibin #LosAngelesFire #ThomasMann #GaryIndiana

  12. "The air, as dusk came, grew yellow, like the fog in Prufrock that licks its tongue into the corners of the evening. At five o’clock, oddly enough, tennis balls I had ordered online were delivered."

    Colm Tóibín on his experience of the fire in Los Angeles, and reflecting on its random cultural destuction. The Thomas Mann House intact, Gary Indiana's personal library, just tranferred from New York, lost.

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/co

    #ColmToibin #LosAngelesFire #ThomasMann #GaryIndiana

  13. "The air, as dusk came, grew yellow, like the fog in Prufrock that licks its tongue into the corners of the evening. At five o’clock, oddly enough, tennis balls I had ordered online were delivered."

    Colm Tóibín on his experience of the fire in Los Angeles, and reflecting on its random cultural destuction. The Thomas Mann House intact, Gary Indiana's personal library, just tranferred from New York, lost.

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/co

    #ColmToibin #LosAngelesFire #ThomasMann #GaryIndiana

  14. "The air, as dusk came, grew yellow, like the fog in Prufrock that licks its tongue into the corners of the evening. At five o’clock, oddly enough, tennis balls I had ordered online were delivered."

    Colm Tóibín on his experience of the fire in Los Angeles, and reflecting on its random cultural destuction. The Thomas Mann House intact, Gary Indiana's personal library, just tranferred from New York, lost.

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/co

    #ColmToibin #LosAngelesFire #ThomasMann #GaryIndiana

  15. More Joyce stuff for those interested in his writing. The LRB put our a very interesting podcast a few months back with Colm Tóibín discussing Ulysses. Colm is a very engaging broadcaster.

    lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/

    #JamesJoyce #Ulysses #ColmTóibín #Ireland #IrishLiterature

  16. More Joyce stuff for those interested in his writing. The LRB put our a very interesting podcast a few months back with Colm Tóibín discussing Ulysses. Colm is a very engaging broadcaster.

    lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/

    #JamesJoyce #Ulysses #ColmTóibín #Ireland #IrishLiterature

  17. Have you read Colm Tóibín's #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE MAGICIAN? Colm is also the current Laureate for Irish Fiction and is a hugely busy man, so we were delighted that he sat down with us for an exclusive Q&A earlier this year, talking about the genesis of this novel about Thomas Mann. You can watch the whole video here bit.ly/WSPcolmqa

    #theMagician #ColmToibin #ThomasMann #amwriting #historicalFiction #books #writingCommunity #history #writingprize #IrishLaureate @bookstodon

  18. Have you read Colm Tóibín's #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE MAGICIAN? Colm is also the current Laureate for Irish Fiction and is a hugely busy man, so we were delighted that he sat down with us for an exclusive Q&A earlier this year, talking about the genesis of this novel about Thomas Mann. You can watch the whole video here bit.ly/WSPcolmqa

    #theMagician #ColmToibin #ThomasMann #amwriting #historicalFiction #books #writingCommunity #history #writingprize #IrishLaureate @bookstodon

  19. "A week later the phone rang and I was told that I had a cancer of the testicles that had spread to a lymph node and to one lung. Instead of seeing the urologist, I would now need to see an oncologist. For a few days I comforted myself by pretending that, because of my abiding interest in the mysteries and niceties of Being, I had to see an ontologist. Nobody except one of my fellow Irish novelists thought this was funny. "

    #books #ColmToibin

  20. Hello to new followers! Today we've enjoyed looking through this list of Irish writers' picks of the year, including those from The Laureate For Irish Fiction, Colm Tóibín, who was also shortlisted for this year's #WalterScottPrize with THE MAGICIAN - via Irish Times Books irishtimes.com/culture/books/2

    @bookstodon

    #irishwriters #colmtoibin #booksoftheyear #boty #irishtimes #bookstodon