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John McGahern

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

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

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"Let us celebrate every little beauty, every little kindness, joy, love, and happiness; and let us express our deepest gratitude for those moments of joy."

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

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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."

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

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"I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world."

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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."

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"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."

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

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