So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.
Colum McCann...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.
Colum McCannI'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.
Colum McCann