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John Mcgahern Quotes
Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space. - John Mcgahern Quotes
But that private world, once its dramatised, doesnt live again until it finds a reader. - John Mcgahern Quotes
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that theres the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. - John Mcgahern Quotes
For example, its only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldnt have come till 1970. - John Mcgahern Quotes
I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer. - John Mcgahern Quotes
I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good. - John Mcgahern Quotes
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. - John Mcgahern Quotes
I mean I think thats a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church. - John Mcgahern Quotes
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy. - John Mcgahern Quotes
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts. - John Mcgahern Quotes
I think its linked to the realisation that were not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story. - John Mcgahern Quotes
I think my mother was very spiritual. - John Mcgahern Quotes
I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldnt exist without the other. - John Mcgahern Quotes
I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world. - John Mcgahern Quotes
I think theres a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when were young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story. - John Mcgahern Quotes
I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television. - John Mcgahern Quotes
Id much prefer to write more quickly. - John Mcgahern Quotes
Ive never written anything that hasnt been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years. - John Mcgahern Quotes
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century. - John Mcgahern Quotes
My father was very outwardly religious. - John Mcgahern Quotes
The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book. - John Mcgahern Quotes
The way I see it is that all the ol guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldnt be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldnt be Chinese or Japanese. - John Mcgahern Quotes
We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places. - John Mcgahern Quotes
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist. - John Mcgahern Quotes
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody. - John Mcgahern Quotes
When youre in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when its around us, its in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if were going to live forever, which were not. - John Mcgahern Quotes
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but theres no kind of agreed form of manners. - John Mcgahern Quotes
Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church. - John Mcgahern Quotes
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