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A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.

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

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  1. Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. – Colum McCann
  2. People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody’s perfect. – Colum McCann
  3. The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth. – Colum McCann
  4. Pain’s nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get. – Colum McCann
  5. We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us. – Colum McCann
  6. It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. – Colum McCann
  7. Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off. – Colum McCann
  8. One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. – Colum McCann
  9. There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it. – Colum McCann
  10. Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification. – Colum McCann
  11. The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small. – Colum McCann
  12. …and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.  – Colum McCann
  13. All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can’t eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. – Colum McCann
  14. Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else. – Colum McCann
  15. Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. – Colum McCann
  16. The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no – Colum McCann
  17. Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. – Colum McCann
  18. The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book — it makes a very poor doorstop. – Alfred Hitch
  19. A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. – Elizabeth Gilbert
  20. The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel. – Edwin Muir
  21. As far as I can tell, a young-adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read. – Stephen Colbert
  22. Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel-”and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. – Elizabeth Hardwick
  23. A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning. – John Irving
  24. You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you’re writing. – Gene Wolfe
  25. My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness. – Anthony Swofford
  26. The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. – Warren G Bennis
  27. Despair? I don’t despair. I have never once in my life despaired anything. I make a point not to go further than resignation. – Megan Derr
  28. Despair sees no hope, while hope sees no despair. – Jim George
  29. So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of dreams. And then tomorrows. – Jim McCann
  30. I dig and plough at your command,’ I replied, ‘but you will not tell me how to shit. – Maria McCann
  31. I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either. – Jessica McCann
  32. How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson. – Maria McCann
  33. God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it. – Maria McCann
  34. A spy novel?- Dagmar asked. -œYou two are talking about a spy nov – GA Aiken
  35. I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say. – Michelle M Pillow
  36. Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. – Robert Hughes
  37. Creativity is the ability to create novel value, creative mind is defined as the originator. – Pearl Zhu
  38. Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman’s terms). – JM Varner
  39. Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts). – Samuel R Delany
  40. In a novel, you’ll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You’ll find shelter there. – Alice Hoffman

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