All John McGahern Quotes
- I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years. Been
- I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts. Facts
- Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church. Church
- I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. Bible
- 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… Agreed
- The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything… All
- I think my mother was very spiritual. Inspirational
- 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… Always Liked
- I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the… All
- Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead… Anybody
- Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and… Amongst
- But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader. Dramatised
- For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in… Ago
- I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more… Forever