#lis

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. ↗

— John McGahern

#dead #english #english language #everything #gaelic

I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#establish #everything #family #give #ground

I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#established #every #every time #feel #get

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift. ↗

— James McGreevey

#be grateful #blessings #day #each #gift

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. ↗

— Claude McKay

#based #castle #foundation #idealism #like

I'm lucky I have good metabolism and I'm very grateful for that. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#grateful #i #lucky #metabolism #very

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist. ↗

— Christopher McQuarrie

#novelist #old #originally #time #wanted

As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#been #culture #eliot #english #example

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him. ↗

— Jay McShann

#blues #book #had #him #i

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#blueprints #duty #first #important #insurrection