Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Goodness is more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Truth: When criticized you go berserk, but in your defense remember that it is those who calmly listen who never change.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“When a great truth gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“It is, in the end, she thinks, the shallowest of confessions: all of the truth, none of the honesty.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth. The person we know at first, [she thinks] is not… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday. The comfort he got… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth. — 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
