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Colum McCann Quotes

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: irish
Birth: February 28, 1965

Topics

Moment Job Look Now Years Emotional

I wrote a show - just as a joke, actually - and called it 'Bipolar, Bath, & Beyond,' just to bring some humor to it. I wasn't saying to myself that I'll 'come out' with it - I didn't think there was anything to 'come out' with - I was just writing another one-woman show about my life.

Life Myself Humor Writing Saying

Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

Walk Birds Hurt Landscape Wood More

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

Creative Poetry Writing Think Helped

While globalization will make the world smaller and more accessible, we must continue to appreciate its vibrant diversity.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

Diversity World Appreciate Will More

Comic-Con is incredibly important to San Diego, but that doesn't mean we can't poke a little fun at it!

Fun Important San Diego Mean Little

El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.

World Night Wake Up Cold Sand Hands

By the end of 1978, we had 11 partners and six franchisees, we were operating in 22 cities, and we had about 6,000 clients. We had left Electronic Accounting Systems and were doing our own processing on our own computers.

Accounting Computers End Doing Own

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

Mary Harris Jones

Win Constitution End Lost Always

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

Hero Curious Will Suspense Happen

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.

Sister Responsible Becoming Who

Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.

Jonas Gahr Store

Weak Modern Liberal Democratic Being

Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resin and plastic - understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example - we can never develop and define form that's appropriate.

Understanding Understand Never Turn

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