"I think fiction is a very serious thing,……" — John McGahern
"I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts."
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34 Quotes by John McGahern
John McGahern has 34 quotes on this site.
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When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private…
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When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance…
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Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without…
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The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change…
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Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when…
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Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and…
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My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor,…
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As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process…
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When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that…
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I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction…
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...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him,…
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Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first…
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a…
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this…
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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