Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
Colum McCannThere's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.
Colum McCannThe tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing mรถbius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.
Colum McCannI don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the only thing we have that can trump life itself.
Colum McCannIf you sort of see yourself writing into a space that you don't always recognize, you sometimes learn things that you knew, but weren't entirely aware of. It's very liberating for a writer to go into a space where she or he has not gone before, because, instead of being a tourist, you're like an explorer now, and you're sort of lost in this new idea.
Colum McCann