--- title: "13 Way Quotes By Colum McCann" description: "13 Way quotes by Colum McCann. Plus more from Colum McCann and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fa/colum-mccann-902_appetite_he-said-to-me-once-that-most-of-the-time_862596.jpg" --- > [He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/he-said-to-me-once-that-most-of-the-time-people-use-the-word-love-as-2/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fa/colum-mccann-902_appetite_he-said-to-me-once-that-most-of-the-time_862596.jpg) > [It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/it-is-not-fashionable-anymore-i-suppose-to-have-a-regard-for-one-s/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e1/colum-mccann-902_1950s_it-is-not-fashionable-anymore-i-suppose_2379697.png) > [The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/the-city-was-bigger-than-its-buildings-bigger-than-its-inhabitants/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5a/colum-mccann-902_accepted_the-city-was-bigger-than-its-buildings-b_1900929.png) > [The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/the-contemporary-american-novelist-benefits-in-a-way-from-being-2/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cb/colum-mccann-902_american_the-contemporary-american-novelist-benef_2075650.png) > [I have a wardrobe full of scarves now, just about every color under the sun. My trick is that I always cut…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/i-have-a-wardrobe-full-of-scarves-now-just-about-every-color-under/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/colum-mccann-902_about_i-have-a-wardrobe-full-of-scarves-now-ju_2975008.png) > [The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/the-further-away-we-got-from-9-11-the-more-i-wanted-to-find-some-way/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a97/colum-mccann-902_about_the-further-away-we-got-from-9-11-the-mo_612732.png) > [The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/the-contemporary-american-novelist-benefits-in-a-way-from-being/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8c/colum-mccann-902_being-ignored_the-contemporary-american-novelist-benef_1738997.png) > [He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/he-told-me-once-that-there-was-no-better-faith-than-a-wounded-faith/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93f/colum-mccann-902_faith_he-told-me-once-that-there-was-no-better_1879196.png) > [I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/i-m-of-the-opinion-that-the-real-is-imagined-and-the-imagined-is/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e95/colum-mccann-902_being-real_i-m-of-the-opinion-that-the-real-is-imag_114503.jpg) > [Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/stories-are-there-to-be-told-and-each-story-changes-with-the-telling/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32c/colum-mccann-902_art_stories-are-there-to-be-told-and-each-st_2423477.jpg) > [One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/one-of-those-out-of-the-ordinary-days-that-made-sense-of-the-slew-of-2/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1dc/colum-mccann-902_cities_one-of-those-out-of-the-ordinary-days-th_3020318.png) > [We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/we-have-to-listen-to-other-people-s-stories-that-s-the-thing-and-that/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f58/colum-mccann-902_knows_we-have-to-listen-to-other-people-s-stor_2181325.png) > [In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/in-a-certain-way-novelists-become-unacknowledged-historians-because/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/319/colum-mccann-902_about_in-a-certain-way-novelists-become-unackn_2425484.png) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Colum McCann > [Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/give-life-long-enough-and-it-will-solve-all-your-problems-including/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/there-is-something-that-happens-to-the-mind-in-moments-of-terror/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/the-short-sharp-shock-of-three-thousand-mother-two-hundred-mothers/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/i-m-not-so-sure-that-i-can-teach-people-how-to-you-know-write/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“Once we had filled each other with desire, not remembrance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/once-we-had-filled-each-other-with-desire-not-remembrance/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/how-long-ago-it-was-and-how-strange-but-all-dead-friends-come-to-life/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/she-would-want-instead-to-recall-him-in-the-air-between-layers-of/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/novels-are-more-difficult-simply-because-they-are-longer-and-require/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/it-was-a-silence-that-heard-itself-awful-and-beautiful/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/i-think-one-of-the-biggest-political-failures-and-the-biggest-social/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/bits-of-it-floating-in-the-air-he-said-it-s-like-dust-you-walk-about/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/he-has-read-whole-volumes-on-the-philosophy-of-nonviolence-how-peace/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“She’s always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/she-s-always-thought-that-one-of-the-beauties-of-new-york-is-that-you/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/i-m-of-the-opinion-that-the-real-is-imagined-and-the-imagined-is/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) > [“She had that emigrant’s sadness—she would never go back to her old country—it was gone in more senses than one—but she was forever gazing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/she-had-that-emigrant-s-sadness-she-would-never-go-back-to-her-old/) [Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/colum-mccann/#itemlist", "name": "13 Way Quotes By Colum McCann", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. 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