Colum McCann Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.

  Colum McCann

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

  "This Week in Fiction: Colum McCann" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. April 04, 2012.

• There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.

  Colum McCann

  Character, Jew, Stills

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

• A lot of people think that writers are much cleverer than they actually are. No, they're not. But they're emotionally clever, and they go into a character, and they feel something that they weren't entirely aware of beforehand.

  Colum McCann

  Clever, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.

  Colum McCann

  Character, Rude, Sound

  "Colum McCann: a life in writing" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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