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John Mcgahern Quotes & Sayings
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Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.
John McGahern
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My father was very outwardly religious.
John McGahern
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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
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I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
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But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.
John McGahern
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I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.
John McGahern
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I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
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When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
John McGahern
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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
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I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
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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.
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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 couldn't exist without the other.
John McGahern
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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
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For example, it's 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 wouldn't have come till 1970.
John McGahern
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I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
John McGahern
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The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
John McGahern
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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
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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
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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
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I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're 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.
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