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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.
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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.
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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.
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I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book
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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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He might have been naive, but he didn't care he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.
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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. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.
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Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the only thing we have that can trump life itself.
Colum McCann
If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
Colum McCann
I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.
Colum McCann
I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
Colum McCann
Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
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 I can get them and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, you can do this, and if I see that fire in their eyes, that's when I think I know a writer.
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...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.
Colum McCann
Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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