“Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father w...” — Colm Toibin Quote

“Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.”

“I 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.”

“I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more.”

“The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.”

“After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.”

“Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.”