I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
JOHN IRVINGBut I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
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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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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won’t forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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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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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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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.
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Life is serious but art is fun!
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
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Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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