Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.
Colum McCannPeople are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.
Colum McCannThe essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction.
Colum McCannSome people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.
Colum McCann