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Colum McCann
Colum McCann
Irish Writer
Born: Feb 28, 1965
About Because Every Me Think You
Related authors: Bram Stoker George William Russell John McGahern Jonathan Swift Ken Bruen Marguerite Gardiner Sarah Rees Brennan
I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.' Colum McCann
Darkness Enough Says Takes Blind Optimism Very Not Interested Interested Then
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street. Colum McCann
Failure Political Past Few Down Think Other Has-Been Able Empathy Failures Over Look Been Years Past Few Years Person Being Biggest Social Street
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. Colum McCann
Bicycle Took States Sun Out About Pot Cleaner Soon Greatest Shield Were Years Years Ago Item Trusty Intent Clothing Holder Declaration Across Uses Chain Rag Found United United States Dozens
The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect. Colum McCann
You Mistake Energy Universe Inside Perfect Over Going Short Short Story Story Place Boil Novel
Every first thing is always a miracle. The first person you fall in love with. The first letter you receive. The first stone you throw. And in my conception of the novel, the letter becomes important. But what's more important is the fact that we need to continue to tell each other stories. Colum McCann
Love You First Important Fall Every Other Tell Miracle More Fact Throw Conception First Thing Becomes First-Person Always Continue Person Stone Stories Novel Each Letter Thing Receive Need
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. Colum McCann
Job Sense Some Only Emotional Writer He Come Look Make Sort Years Where Moment Now
Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in fiction is dangerous. It also lacks imagination. Colum McCann
Me People Dangerous Think Imagination Ripping Directly Seldom Also Off Very Lacks Fiction Stories Used Lives
I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered. Colum McCann
You Manners Every Seems Something Put Puts Calling Historical Want Anyway Mean Your Novel Novels Right
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think a fiction writer has anything over a journalist. It's all about the good word, properly inserted. Colum McCann
Truth Good Better Word Poet Journalist Believe Think Inserted About Morality Properly Writer Over Than Fiction Fiction Writer Hold Anything
The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldn't. Colum McCann
You Benefits Being Ignored Way Those Contemporary Makes Go American Being Where Want Places Ignored Novelist

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