John McGahern Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  John McGahern

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

• As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

  John McGahern

  Writing, Discovery, Ends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I'd much prefer to write more quickly.

  John McGahern

  Writing

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

• I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

  John McGahern

  Writing, Thinking, Serious Things

• 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.

  John McGahern

  Regret, Writing, Mean

• 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.

  John McGahern

  Romantic, Reading, Writing

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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