Colum McCann Quotes

I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.

With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.

I think it can be fun to write about relationships just because so many people can relate to what you are feeling.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

I'm only interested in writing about relationships.

Relationships are so important to all of us.

A lot of 'Time' was actually about a friend's relationship and me seeing what she went through and how she felt.

Life is relationships and what we're trying to do together. And please, that's what people have been singing about forever. That's what the blues is all about - the good, the bad, the fun, all of it - that lies there in between a man and a woman.

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

I love to write.

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.