Colum McCann Quotes About Writing

• Escribo sobre lo que sé; y escribo sobre cosas que son nuevas para mí, y que no sabía antes.

  Colum McCann

  Escribir, Saber

  "Colum McCann vincula las comunidades con la narración". "Talk of the Nation" con Neal Conan, www.npr.org. 26 de junio de 2012.

• Me encantan las historias cortas. Son como pequeños universos que implosionan. Están muy bien atados y controlados. Llevaba años queriendo escribir uno, pero me enredé con las novelas. La novela es lo mismo en el sentido de que también es un universo, pero explota hacia fuera con toda esa metralla que va en varias direcciones diferentes. No veo demasiada diferencia en las formas, salvo por el hecho de que escribir relatos cortos es como esprintar en lugar de correr largas distancias.

  Colum McCann

  Short Love, Running, Distance

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

• I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if I can get them and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, you can do this, and if I see that fire in their eyes, that's when I think I know a writer.

  Colum McCann

  Writing, Eye, Thinking

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.

  Colum McCann

  Writing, Impossible, Knows

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• If you sort of see yourself writing into a space that you don't always recognize, you sometimes learn things that you knew, but weren't entirely aware of. It's very liberating for a writer to go into a space where she or he has not gone before, because, instead of being a tourist, you're like an explorer now, and you're sort of lost in this new idea.

  Colum McCann

  Writing, Ideas, Space

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you want in your writing is to have a sort of wildness that occurs. And then, out of the wildness, a structure emerges.

  Colum McCann

  Writing, Stories, Want

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's going on. But I don't say to any writer that that's absolutely what they should do.

  Colum McCann

  Writing, Looks, Social

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

  Colum McCann

  Writing, Organization, Association

• That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.

  Colum McCann

  Mother, Writing, Son

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.107, Random House

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