"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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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

John McGahern

#Writing Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.”
“Give me something to dance about and I'll dance it.”
“For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?”
“Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.”
“There are certain things in there that no one else would recognize, really. I see details of my life that I didn't even intend to put in when I was doing the work. For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in The Death-Ray is based on somebody I went to high school with.”
“I didn't go to bars much. One drunken ***** was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't remember a lot of it.”
“Can collective intelligence save the planet? It's the only hope we have.”
“All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.”

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