Keep passing the open windows.
JOHN IRVINGThe 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.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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My life is a reading list.
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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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Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.
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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
JOHN IRVING







