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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.

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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.

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Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

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I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

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My father was very outwardly religious.

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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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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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I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Writer

Born: November 12th, 1934

Died: March 30th, 2006

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