“If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.”

—  Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín, novelist – portrait of the artist http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/19/colm-toibin-novelist-portrait-artist, The Guardian (19 February 2013)

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Irish novelist and writer 1955

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