When 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.
More Quotes from John McGahern:
Amongst 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.John McGahern
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
John McGahern
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
John McGahern
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 feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.
John McGahern
I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
John McGahern
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