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 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
I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year! — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing… — 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
