“I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up ...” — Colm Toibin Quote

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

“I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in the mountains. They speak English to foreigners, but what people say to each other is much more important than what they say to you.”

“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.”

“I'll play for whoever drafts me. I'm just not going to be presumptuous about what they want to do. It's the draft.”

“Sometimes, obviously it's an incentive to tank if you have the opportunity to get those high draft picks.”

“No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.”