John McGahern Quote

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories (ed. 2009)

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is...

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is...

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is...

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is...