John McGahern Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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 McGahern

  Book, Space, Ideas

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

• Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive) alone with a book the whole razzmatazz of prizes, banquets, television spectaculars, bestseller lists, even literature courses, editors and authors, are all worthless. Unless a book finds lovers among those solitary readers, it will not live . . . or live for long.

  John McGahern

  Book, Editors, Long

• I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

  John McGahern

  Book, Boys, Advice

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

• I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

  John McGahern

  Book, Reading, Charming

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

• The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.

  John McGahern

  Book, Thinking, Church

• I 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 McGahern

  Book, Thinking, Differences

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