I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty. Colum McCann More Quotes by Colum McCann More Quotes From Colum McCann She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create. Colum McCann army running men 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 clever character thinking Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns. Colum McCann breakdown fabulous 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. Colum McCann rocks earth thinking They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart. Colum McCann able heart heaven Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's going on. But I don't say to any writer that that's absolutely what they should do. Colum McCann social writing looks 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. Colum McCann use people way He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along --trying to wound his faith in order to test it--and I was just another stone in the way of his God. Colum McCann stones trying order I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a fountain and then she has to tell someone her most extraordinary wish even though she knows that the wish should be kept secret and that, in telling it, she is quite probably losing it. He replied that I was not to worry, that the penny could come out of the fountain again and again and again. Colum McCann secret worry children 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. Colum McCann cogs men believe Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again. Colum McCann lessons shining dark Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. Colum McCann things-in-life real stories It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected. Colum McCann strange lasts new-york 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. Colum McCann pain forever tea Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me. Colum McCann wish life people I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban. Colum McCann grew-up safe class Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive. Colum McCann alive wonderful fiction Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have absolutely no guilty pleasures at all. No graphic novels. No murder mysteries. My summer read is really no different from my winter read. I know many bookshops and magazines would have me believe that our summer forays are different, but literature is literature, and unfortunately snobbery is snobbery. Colum McCann reading summer book 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 news real stories Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell. Colum McCann rocks men heaven
