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
The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
'Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption. — 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
No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I want the younger writer to know that she or he is meaningful, that what they have to say is powerful in… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the… — 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
