Phrase by 'John McGahern'
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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.
Author: John McGahern - Irish WriterThink , Writing , Reading , Way
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
Author: John McGahern - Irish WriterTime , Book , Reading , Admire
I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.
Author: John McGahern - Irish WriterFeel , Think , Live , Good
Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.
Author: John McGahern - Irish WriterNothing , Church , Yes , Gratitude
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
Author: John McGahern - Irish WriterLove , Poor , Description , Gothic
My father was very outwardly religious.
Author: John McGahern - Irish WriterFather , Very , Religious
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.
Author: John McGahern - Irish WriterBook , Think , Evening , Church
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 there's no kind of agreed form of manners.
Author: John McGahern - Irish WriterPeople , Problems , Beautiful , Some People
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.
Author: John McGahern - Irish WriterMe , Something , Thought , Attitude
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
Author: John McGahern - Irish WriterThink , Truth , Serious , Facts
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