I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.
Colum McCannStories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
Colum McCann