There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
JOHN IRVINGSo, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
More John Irving Quotes
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I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
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The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.
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The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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It’s a no-win argument – that business of what we’re born with and what our environment does to us. And it’s a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
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Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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