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John McGahern Quotes
Page 2 of 2John McGahern
November 12, 1934 - March 30, 2006
Nationality: Irish
Category: Writer
Subcategory: Irish Writer
|  I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world. | | I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years. | | I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy. | | I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story. | | I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer. |
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