John McGahern Quotes About Writing
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I 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.
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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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I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
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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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As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.
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I'd much prefer to write more quickly.
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