I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.
Colm ToibinAs I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for everything. I would not be given a second chance. In the hours when I woke, I have to tell you that this struck me almost with relief.
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 ToibinIt is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
Colm Toibin