327 Quotes by Colum McCann

I’m of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.

Then the clouds curtsy in, the rain kneels upon the land, and the weather knocks them back a whole day and a half.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn’t know before.

I’m only telling you on the truth,” he said. “If you can’t stand the truth, don’t ask for it.

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick’ll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

The disconnect between his mouth and his mind. That’s where the camera came in. It was the unspoken thing between him and the others.

If you are wise you step through the darkness only one foot at a time.

Ullmann had once written that the secret of every work of art was the annihilation of matter through form.

He caught a glimpse in the mirror the other day, and how in tarnation did I acquire the face of my father’s father?