"I think technique can be taught but I……" — John McGahern
"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."
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34 Quotes by John McGahern
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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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