Colum McCann Quotes About Language

• I was fascinated by the lack of a word for a parent who has lost a child. We have no word in English. I thought for sure there'd be a word in Irish but there is none. And then I looked in several other languages and could not find one, until I found the word Sh'khol in Hebrew. I'm still not sure why so many languages don't have a word for this sort of bereavement, this shadowing.

  Colum McCann

  Children, Parent, Bereavement

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

• Las novelas son más difíciles simplemente porque son más largas y requieren más malabarismos, pero los relatos cortos se acercan más a la perfección, si se consigue un lenguaje correcto.

  Colum McCann

  Perfection, Stories, Language

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

• 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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