I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
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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.John McGahern
But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.
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.
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I'd much prefer to write more quickly.
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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.
John McGahern
Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.
John McGahern
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