The writer discovered this because, when he started writing The Commitments, he knew it was good. “I think it was a big shock when Randy Newman used to walk on stage because he’s f**king huge,” says Doyle. “It was just sh*te.”MythologyHe knew it was sh*te, he says, because when he started writing The Commitments he knew that was good. “I deliberately started writing on every third line, so there’d be two lines empty and I could go back the next day and start adding . So now and again, you feel a bit younger than you actually are.”Author Roddy Doyle photographed in Dublin.

Source: The Irish Times October 10, 2020 05:03 UTC