I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
JOHN IRVINGYou 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.
More John Irving Quotes
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You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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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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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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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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They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
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A novel is a piece of architecture. It’s not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It’s a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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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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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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There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
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There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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