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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

John Irving

A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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Jobs Memories Writing
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Country Hopeful Thinking
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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Finished Process Product
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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Funeral Hymns Thinking
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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Actor Skins Thinking
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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Cancer Reading Real
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful.
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Sunday Teenage Years
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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Firsts Writing Written
The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
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Dread Gardener Size
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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Memories Monsters Thinking
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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Memorable Running Thinking

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

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