Stay in your mental pyjamas all day. […] Work in the morning, a short break for lunch, work in the afternoon and then watch the six o’clock news and then go back to work until bed-time. Before bed, listen to Schubert, preferably some songs.
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Colm Tóibín
Novelist, essayist and critic
Ireland · b. 1955
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Irish novelist and essayist whose books include The Master, Brooklyn, Nora Webster and The Magician. He worked as a journalist in Dublin and Barcelona before turning to fiction and has taught at Columbia University.
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No alcohol, sex or drugs while you are working. […] No going to London. […] No going anywhere else either.
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