Colum McCann Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

  Colum McCann

  Heart, Simple, Long Ago

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

• He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

  Colum McCann

  Heart, Care, Might

• The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction.

  Colum McCann

  Heart, Essence, Needs

  Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes them. Each story is shifted side-ways by each day that unfolds. Nothing ends. The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself. At the heart of all this is the possibility, or desire, to create a piece of art that talks to the human instinct for recovery and joy.

  Colum McCann

  Art, Recovery, Joy

  "Author, author: Stories are there to be told" by Colum McCann, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2009.

• They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

  Colum McCann

  Heart, Heaven, Able

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.211, Random House

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