When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.
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But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.John McGahern
I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
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We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.
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I think my mother was very spiritual.
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I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.
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I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
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