The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
JOHN IRVINGIt is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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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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A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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Life is serious but art is fun!
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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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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.
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Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
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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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What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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