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John McGahern Quotes

John McGahern quotes

Irish Writer November 12, 1934 – March 30, 2006

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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
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
John McGahern quote: "I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is..."
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts. John McGahern
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
John McGahern quote: "But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live..."
But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader. John McGahern
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

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