I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
John McGahernI think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
John McGahernI think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
John McGahern