What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
JOHN IRVINGI’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
More John Irving Quotes
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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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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A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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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!
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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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The 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.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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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.
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So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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