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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.

John Irving

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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Eyes Love People Things
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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Caricatures Enough Long
A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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Jobs Memories Writing
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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Cases Meany Owen World
When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it – rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.
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Stories Want Writing
All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.
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Judging Superiors Tolerance
…I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
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Doors Growing Long
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn’t terribly painful.
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Sunday Teenage Years
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Centered Religion Self
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
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Care Rumor Stories
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
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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Children Moments Parent

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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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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