So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
JOHN IRVINGIf you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
More John Irving Quotes
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
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But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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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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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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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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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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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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