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

John McGahern

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Artist Quotes

“The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when itâ€™s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when itâ€™s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.”
“There's no other like Leo.”
“It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.”
“Wow. I've never been a VIP before. I've never even been a IP.”
“I don't understand it myself, really. It's like the idea of him is better than the him of him”
“What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority”

Source : Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. July 1993.
“All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.”
“I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.”

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