I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that writers are much cleverer than they actually are. No, they're not. But they're emotionally clever, and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
