Author: John McGahern

Quotes

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

- John McGahern

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

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

- John McGahern

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

- John McGahern

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

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

- John McGahern

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

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

- John McGahern

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

- John McGahern

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