Writing Quotes by Colm Toibin

Colm Toibin

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

Manipulation

Realizing

Writing

Colm Toibin

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

Firsts

Fountain

Writing

Colm Toibin

John McGovern taught me that it’s OK to write repeatedly about the same things.

Taught

Writing

Colm Toibin

The problem is once you’ve written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there’s nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side.

Hands

Notebook

Writing

Colm Toibin

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

Mirrors

Song

Writing

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Writing Quotes by Colm Toibin

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

John McGovern taught me that it’s OK to write repeatedly about the same things.

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

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