The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
JOHN IRVINGI certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
More John Irving Quotes
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It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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You don’t want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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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.
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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 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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I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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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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I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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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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My life is a reading list.
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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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It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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