I’ve never written anything that hasn’t been in my mind for a long time – seven or eight years. — John McGahern
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about — John McGahern
The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval churches — John McGahern
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that — John McGahern
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that — John McGahern
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. — John McGahern
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
I love the description of gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. — John McGahern
For example, it’s only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines — John McGahern
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the — John McGahern
But that private world, once it’s dramatized, doesn’t live again until it finds a reader. — John McGahern