Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
JOHN IRVINGI’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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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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There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
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Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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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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What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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