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I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

John Irving

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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Stories Victim Writing
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
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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Love Reason Writing
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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Fashion Real Term Work
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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Art Hard Work Serious
You can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
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Country Names Play
There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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Aware Constantly Reason
As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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Activity Bad Temper
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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Book Long Writing
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
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.
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Minutes Way Writing
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself

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