I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
Colm ToibinShe was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.
Colm ToibinI wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.
Colm ToibinI said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces. I hadn't yet learnt how careful outsiders have to be when talking about race in America, and I'd put my foot in it. Someone stood up and said aggressively, 'What do you mean by Irish faces?'
Colm Toibin