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Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

Colum McCann
Discovery, Years, Thrilling

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.

Colum McCann
Memories, Looks, Clean
Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.

Colum McCann
Silly, Believe, Needs

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
Thinking, Past, Years
"Colum McCann Links Communities With Storytelling Listen". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 26, 2012.

...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

Colum McCann
Silence, Noise, Silence Love
Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.333, Random House

I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if I can get them and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, you can do this, and if I see that fire in their eyes, that's when I think I know a writer.

Colum McCann
Writing, Eye, Thinking
Source: www.pbs.org

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
Writing, Looks, Social
Source: www.pbs.org

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
Believe, Men, Cogs

I want the younger writer to know that she or he is meaningful, that what they have to say is powerful in this world. But they can't come indoors, they can't close the curtains, they can't, like, lock themselves away from the world and say nothing.

Colum McCann
Meaningful, Powerful, Locks
Source: www.pbs.org

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