Colm Toibin Quote

The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, . He said that, together with the previous novel, it represented a diptych about the aftermath of Irish independence. I simply hadn't known that – and I loved the grandeur of the word diptych. I went around quite snooty for a few days, thinking: I wrote a diptych.

Colm Toibin

The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, . He said that, together with the previous novel, it represented a diptych about the aftermath of Irish independence. I simply hadn't known that – and I loved the grandeur of the word diptych. I went around quite snooty for a few days, thinking: I wrote a diptych.

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