"I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before."

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Source : "Colum McCann Links Communities With Storytelling". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 26, 2012.

Colum McCann

#Writing Quotes

“I like to race, not to do laps alone.”

Source : Interview with Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2005.
“Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.”
“A woman in the presence of a good man, a real man, loves being a woman. His strength allows her feminine heart to flourish. His pursuit draws out her beauty. And a man in the presence of a real woman loves being a man. Her beauty arouses him to play the man; it draws out his strength. She inspires him to be a hero.”
“With the help of technology, teachers will be leaders in the transformation of education around the world.”
“I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.”
“My favorite part of theatre is that I get paid for it!”
“I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.”
“Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human”

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