John McGahern's Profile
Brief about John McGahern: By info that we know John McGahern was born at 1934-11-12. And also John McGahern is Irish Writer.
Some John McGahern's quotes. Goto "John McGahern's quotation" section for more.Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
Tags: Dead, Language, RainI think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
Tags: Serious, Truth, WhileThe rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.
Tags: Book, Evening, SaidWhen you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
Tags: Forever, Granted, LosingYes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.
Tags: Beautiful, Mean, ProblemsBut that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.
Tags: Again, Once, UntilI feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.
Tags: Century, Changes, GoodI love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
Tags: Love, Poor, WordI read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
Tags: Book, Read, TimeI've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
Tags: Mind, Time, WrittenYes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.
Tags: Church, Gratitude, ThoughAmongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.
Tags: Family, Society, WomenFor example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.
Tags: Community, Example, TelevisionI 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.
Tags: Church, Class, MiddleI 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.
Tags: Become, Saying, StoryI 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.
Tags: Learn, Write, WritingI 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.
Tags: Between, Cannot, OthersRelated topics
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