Famous Colum McCann Quotes

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

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

  • The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no – Colum McCann

    The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no– Colum McCann

  • Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. – Colum McCann

    Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.– Colum McCann

  • Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else. – Colum McCann

    Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.– Colum McCann

  • A good novel can be a doorstop to despair. – Colum McCann

    A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.– Colum McCann

  • All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can’t eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. – Colum McCann

    All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can’t eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.– Colum McCann

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

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

  • The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small. – Colum McCann

    The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.– Colum McCann

  • Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification. – Colum McCann

    Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.– Colum McCann

  • There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it. – Colum McCann

    There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it.– Colum McCann