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.
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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
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.
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I'd much prefer to write more quickly.
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.
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