John McGahern Quotes

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.

John McGahern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: November 12, 1934 - March 30, 2006

Topics

WritingReadingThinkLearnWaySee

If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.

Jim Henson

CharacterPeopleDoingTalkingYou

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

Jerry Stiller

CreativeComedyGrowingMineLike

I suppose books are my real passion in life.

John Boyne

LifePassionRealBooksSuppose

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

Sonam Kapoor

RelationshipEffortSayingYouNever

To some extent, I'm mildly surprised by every new piece, by the precise path that my interest takes.

Steven Stucky

PathNewInterestPieceSomeTakes

There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads... and the pictures were so vivid.

Robbie Robertson

New YorkEasyYouPicturesNewBuy

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

Mary Douglas

GoodGodCommunityReligionSweet

Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!

Louis Tomlinson

LifeLiveLive LifeMomentUncertain

I've always done a lot of stunts in the past, and I sound like I'm tooting my own horn here, but I've always impressed the people I've worked with, and they've let me do more and more.

Lucas Till

PastPeopleMeDoneMy OwnSound

I think film can change lives. Doing 'Milk' changed mine, for sure. When I see that someone like Harvey Milk changed his life and the lives of many others in just eight years, I feel powerful. I go out of the cinema saying, 'Maybe there's something I can do, too.'

Diego Luna

LifeChangeSayingThinkPowerful

There's nothing wrong with being honest about what you are.

Brandon Victor Dixon

YouWrongNothingHonestBeing

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

Annie Leibovitz

PictureJournalismBackGoSometimes

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