I love short stories. They're like small imploding universes. They are very tightly bound and controlled. I'd been wanting to write one for ages but just got tangled up in novels. The novel is the same in the sense that it is also a universe, but it explodes outwards with all that shrapnel going in several different directions. I don't see too much difference in the forms except for the fact that writing short stories is like sprinting rather than long-distance running.
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 bac… - Colum Mccann
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 bac…
- Colum Mccann
I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough… - Colum Mccann
I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough…
The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly. - Colum Mccann
The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully. - Colum Mccann
Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully.
The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough. - Colum Mccann
The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.
I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life. - Colum Mccann
I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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.
The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own. - Colum Mccann
The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.
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.
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