I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.
John McGahernI 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.
John McGahernI think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
John McGahernAmongst 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 McGahern