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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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Journalist
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Dublin city
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
Colum McCann
Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.
Colum McCann
I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
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 the language right.
Colum McCann
Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
Colum McCann
He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.
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 shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.
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.
Colum McCann
A lot of people think that writers are much cleverer than they actually are. No, they're not. But they're emotionally clever, and they go into a character, and they feel something that they weren't entirely aware of beforehand.
Colum McCann
Whatever you say, say nothing.
Colum McCann
I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.
Colum McCann
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 ourselves.
Colum McCann
I'm only telling you on the truth, he said. If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.
Colum McCann
The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
Colum McCann
With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
Colum McCann
I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.
Colum McCann
If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
Colum McCann
...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.
Colum McCann
There is always room for at least two truths.
Colum McCann
The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
Colum McCann