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John Irving

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
JOHN IRVING

Coincidence Novel Young
Keep passing the open windows.
JOHN IRVING

Depression Encouraging Life
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
JOHN IRVING

Mean People Religious
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
JOHN IRVING

Condescend Inferiors People
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
JOHN IRVING

Answers People Ready
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.
JOHN IRVING

Actor Skins Thinking
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.
JOHN IRVING

Book Long Writing
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
JOHN IRVING

People Sound Trying
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
JOHN IRVING

Caricatures Enough Long
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.
JOHN IRVING

Adults Age Kids
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
JOHN IRVING

Feet Knows Needs
So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
JOHN IRVING

Fashion Real Term Work
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
JOHN IRVING

Brain Heart Poison
There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
JOHN IRVING

Aware Constantly Reason
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
JOHN IRVING

Moral Pride Sin
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
JOHN IRVING

Future Nothing Scary

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