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  • John Irving Quote - 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. Download This Image
  • John Irving Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE! Download This Image

    THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met. Download This Image

    Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors. Download This Image

    Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - My life is a reading list.

    My life is a reading list.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - …there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus. Download This Image

    …there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - 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.

    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.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.

    Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them. Download This Image

    Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - …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.

    …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.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable. Download This Image

    I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you. Download This Image

    In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers. Download This Image

    People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don’t mean that you can’t also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.

    Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don’t mean that you can’t also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another. Download This Image

    They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

    JOHN IRVING