Colum McCann Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Colum McCann
Colum McCann Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There was something in the music of the accent that Douglass liked: it was as if the Cork people put long lazy hammocks in their sentences.
The old days, they arrive back in the oddest ways, suddenly taut, breaking the surface, a salmon leap.
She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.
There was a quote about "standing in a river too long or long enough" that I can't find now. Anyone remember? If so, what page?
The wind surged in a roar, then died down like it was pondering some heavy shit, then started back up like before.
People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.
My wardrobe is drab. I could spend six weeks in the same jeans. Most everything I have is blue or black, but certainly not cool.
Women in long dresses, aloof and elegant, the mark of bonnet ribbons still on the soft of their necks.
She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.
When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
What was life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves if incident. Stacked at odd angles to each other.
I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.
Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
I suppose I've always known that it's hard to be just one person. the key is in the door and it can always be opened.
Truth: When criticized you go berserk, but in your defense remember that it is those who calmly listen who never change.
Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.
The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction.
The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.
Then the clouds curtsy in, the rain kneels upon the land, and the weather knocks them back a whole day and a half.
Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
She had told Jaslyn once that everyone knows where they are from when they know where it is they want to be buried.
One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.
In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can't stop the lines in time, so I'm a novelist.
So, leave the cynics be. Out-cynic them. Step into that elsewhere. Believe that your story is bigger than yourself. In
The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.
Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary.
You are a dancer for only a part of your life. The rest of the time you are walking around, thinking about it!