I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and … - Colm Toibin

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I always looked at magazines. Ever since I was little I was obsessed with Elle magazine and the models. I would watch the model TV shows, like the specials on Milla Jovovich.

Colm Toibin

I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.

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Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

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

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Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

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While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.

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Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

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