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I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.
- Mind
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I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
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For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.
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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.
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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 dramatise that private world.
- Live
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But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.
- Reading
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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.
- Book
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I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
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I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.
- Gothic
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I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father was very outwardly religious.
- Evening
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.
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When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.
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