It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
JOHN IRVINGThere’s nothing as scary as the future.
More John Irving Quotes
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
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There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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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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I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
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How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
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The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
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Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
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So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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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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