Thinking Quotes by John McGahern

John McGahern

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

Different

Grew Up

Thinking

John McGahern

I mean I think that’s a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.

Catholic

Mean

Thinking

John McGahern

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Serious Things

Thinking

Writing

John McGahern

I think my mother was very spiritual.

Mother

Spiritual

Thinking

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.

Reading

Thinking

Writing

John McGahern

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.

Differences

Thinking

World

John McGahern

I think there’s a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we’re young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story – and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

Book

Differences

Thinking

John McGahern

The 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.

Book

Church

Thinking

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Different

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Editors

Eight

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Feelings

Fiction

Forever

Given

Gothic

Gratitude

Grew Up

Ideas

Identity

Imagination

Ireland And The Irish

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Killing

Kissing

Life Is

Loan

Long

Losing

Matter

Mean

Mother

Needs

Pace

Peculiar

People

Printed Word

Rain

Reading

Real

Regret

Religious

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Space

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Upbringing

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Thinking Quotes by John McGahern

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

I mean I think that’s a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

I think my mother was very spiritual.

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.

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 think there’s a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we’re young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story – and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

The 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.

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