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John McGahern quotes: I'd much prefer to write more quickly.

I'd much prefer to write more quickly.

John McGahern quotes: ... But all life turns away from its own eventual hopelessness, leaving insomnia and its night to lovers and the dying.

... But all life turns away from its own eventual hopelessness, leaving insomnia and its night to lovers and the dying.

John McGahern quotes: Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

John McGahern quotes: I think my mother was very spiritual.

I think my mother was very spiritual.

John McGahern quotes: Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.

Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.

John McGahern quotes: I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

John McGahern quotes: I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

John McGahern quotes: 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.

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.

John McGahern quotes: But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

John McGahern quotes: I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

John McGahern quotes: Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood

Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood

John McGahern quotes: To leave the everpresent tension of Great Meadow was like shedding stiff, formal clothes or kicking off pinching shoes.

To leave the everpresent tension of Great Meadow was like shedding stiff, formal clothes or kicking off pinching shoes.

John McGahern quotes: I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

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 quotes: The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.

The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.

John McGahern quotes: I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

John McGahern quotes: My father was very outwardly religious.

My father was very outwardly religious.

John McGahern quotes: People are funny. They look down from all sorts of heights and then if the looking down has no effect they get unsure.

People are funny. They look down from all sorts of heights and then if the looking down has no effect they get unsure.