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John McGahern Quotes
John McGahern Quotes
John McGahern
Irish
Writer
Born:
Nov 12
,
1934
Died:
Mar 30
,
2006
Book
Live
Reading
Think
Time
World
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I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
John McGahern
Time
Mind
Long
Long Time
Seven
Never
Written
Been
Years
Eight
Anything
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
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
Sense
Society
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
About
Almost
Up
Ireland
Century
Then
Twentieth
Twentieth Century
Peculiar
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
Me
Advice
Gave
Back
Books
Way
Television
Direction
Take
Nobody
Read
Boy
Five
Six
Might
Much
Used
Away
Watch
Bring
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
You
Losing
Live
Danger
Take
Abundance
Around
Becomes
Forever
Precious
Going
Which
Us
Granted
Thing
Tedious
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