Again Quote by John McGahern Download Open image “But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.” — John McGahern ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Again Books Live Once Until World
Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
In that way, any world you create will become real. The reader makes it so. The reader becomes implicated in the creation of the… — Pinckney Benedict Copy Share Image
If we have people with the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways. He'd put… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“…But all life turns away from its own eventual hopelessness, leaving insomnia and its night to lovers and the dying.” — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance. — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“When a long abuse of power is corrected, it is generally replaced by an opposite violence. In the new dispensation all that was good… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church. — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“McGahern still lives on and works a farm in Leitrim, and friends say that even though he has held high profile academic posts round… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
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… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I say this about everything: when I was on 'Neighbours,' I said, 'These are the best years of my life!' When I was filming… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
I don't think you should ever say, 'This is the last time'. Music isn't like that. You'll be sitting there not wishing to get… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself. I don't know if I could… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's… — Phil Everly Copy Share Image
In theater, one of the biggest problems when you're rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other. — Lauren Ashley Carter Copy Share Image
Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I… — Bruce Johnston Copy Share Image
Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image