Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.
John McGahernI suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was . . . it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were.
John McGahernI love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
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