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John McGahern

Irish Writer

Born: Nov 12, 1934

Died: Mar 30, 2006

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Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church. John McGahern

Gratitude Church Nothing Though Yes Upbringing

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. John McGahern

Beautiful People Problems Some People Manners Kind One Of The Problems Some Fact Also Yes Ireland Form Formal Mean Agreed Novelist

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

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

World Think Others See Able Only Only Difference Writer Between Reader Private Private World Difference Cannot Us Each

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader. John McGahern

World Live Once Finds Until Reader Private Private World Again

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy. John McGahern

Time Book Reading Alice Admire Charming Read Very Much Billy

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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