I'd much prefer to write more quickly.
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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.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.
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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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.
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I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.
John McGahern
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
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