John Mcgahern Quotes

“They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways. He'd put himself outside and outside they'd make him stay. Neither brutality nor complaining could force a way in.”
― John McGahern, The Dark

“I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.”
― John McGahern

“I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatize that private world.”
― John McGahern