Quotes by John McGahern

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time -...

#John McGahern

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books...

#John McGahern

I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when...

#John McGahern

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The...

#John McGahern

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to...

#John McGahern

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and...

#John McGahern

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is...

#John McGahern

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by...

#John McGahern

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the...

#John McGahern

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think...

#John McGahern

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church....

#John McGahern

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have...

#John McGahern