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Whatever you say, say nothing.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
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There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.
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Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
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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.
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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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Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.
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Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.
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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
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I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.
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The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
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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.
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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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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.
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She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.
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This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
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