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Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Fiction
Alive
Beauty
Part
Body
Come

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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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There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.
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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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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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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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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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I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.
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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.
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Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.
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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.
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I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
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Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.
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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief.
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