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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. "[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

  4. "[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

  5. "[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

  6. '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

  7. '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

  8. '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

  9. '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

  10. '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

  11. "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

  12. "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

  13. "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

  14. "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

  15. "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

  16. "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

  17. "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

  18. "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

  19. "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

  20. "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

  21. Die @ZEITONLINE sieht das Ende eher positiv.

    zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2024-

    Warum bin ich so unzufrieden mit dem Ende, wo ich‘s doch bei Filmen wirklich mag und elegant finde, wenn sie in einem Schwebezustand enden? Liegt es daran, dass ich mich zwei Monate lang durch dieses Buch gekämpft habe und am Ende nicht mal ein Ende dafür bekomme?