I tend to write in cinemagraphic strokes. In other words I
create pictures. From these pictures people emerge. The landscape
gives birth to the people and gradually the people take over.
Colum McCann |
Our inability to recognize the extent to which racism exists
is truly amazing.
Colum McCann |
I suppose the Irish writer has always had a peculiar home
in the world. By a combination of strategies — going into
exile, subverting the language, twisting the fictional form
— he or she has consistently remained provocative.
Colum McCann |
Zoli was always going to be a different cultural proposition.
I didn't know enough about Papusza and I certainly didn't want
any of the straitjackets of traditional non-fiction. So I wanted
to take just the templates of Papusza's life and turn them around,
set them free. I certainly didn't want Zoli to die alone and
forgotten. I didn't want her to become a spectacle of disintegration.
Colum McCann |
I wanted the story to be true and honest and accurate, but
I also wanted to say that there is a future, there is a civil
rights movement at the core here, there is a light at the end
of the tunnel and it's not just a train bearing down awful fast.
Colum McCann
On Zoli. |
Good days, they come around the oddest corners.
Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin. |
Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They
rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and
twist our hearts a notch backward.
Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin. |
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily
become the truth.
Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin. |
The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our
own.
Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin. |
I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin. |
Everything falls into the hands of music eventually.
Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin. |
The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.
Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin. |
Even if you're going to die, you might as well die pretty.
Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin. |
One of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere
and within moments of landing it is yours.
Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin. |
People think they know the mystery of living in your skin.
They don't. There's no one knows except the person who carts
it around her own self.
Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin. |
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