Quotes about John McGahern

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

#John McGahern

Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community....

#John McGahern

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

#John McGahern

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact...

#John McGahern

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around...

#John McGahern

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something...

#John McGahern

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if...

#John McGahern

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were...

#John McGahern

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is...

#John McGahern

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches,...

#John McGahern

My father was very outwardly religious.

#John McGahern

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society...

#John McGahern