Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.
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 McCannPeople think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.
Colum McCann