Quotes by Colum McCann

Colum McCann

…and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.

Borders

Hatred

Strikes

A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

Book

Finished

Reader

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.

Character

Clever

Thinking

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

Alive

Fiction

Wonderful

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn’t matter — it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Matter

People

Sentimental

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Alive

Giving

Long

He looks like the sort of man who can’t afford to leave, and doesn’t want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

Looks

Men

Want

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

Firsts

Lasts

Steps

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.

Order

Stones

Trying

He’s at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the depth, the form, the control, the twist of his wrist, the bend of his elbow, the tilt of his neck, notes digging into arteries, and he is in the air now, forcing the legs up beyond muscular memory, one last press of the thighs, an elongation of form, a loosening of human contour, he goes higher and is skyheld.

Air

Knowing

Memories

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Able

Admire

Air

Alive

Army

Asks

Ballet

Beautiful

Being Ignored

Believe

Benefits

Bereavement

Blessed

Body

Book

Borders

Character

Children

Cities

Class

Clean

Clever

Cogs

Dark

Darkness

Different

Discovery

Emotional

Enough

Essence

Fall

Feels

Fiction

Finished

Firsts

Flight

Forever

Function

Giving

Grew Up

Grief

Hate

Hatred

Hearing

Heart

Heaven

Ideas

Ifs

Illusion

Important

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Quotes by Colum McCann

Colum McCann

…and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.

A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

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.

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn’t matter — it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

He looks like the sort of man who can’t afford to leave, and doesn’t want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

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.

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