“A local butcher offered me money to put in my next book a portrayal of a customer he didn't like that would… — John McGahern Books Copy Share Image
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts. — John McGahern Facts Copy Share Image
I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice… — John McGahern Advice Copy Share Image
As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery. — John McGahern Discovery Copy Share Image
“As men obsessed with the idea that all knowledge lies within a woman's body, but having entered it to find themselves as… — John McGahern Desire Copy Share Image
I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from… — John McGahern Books Copy Share Image
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. — John McGahern Bible Copy Share Image
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it… — John McGahern Century Copy Share Image
