I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.
JOHN IRVINGIt’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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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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People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
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A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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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.
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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.
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it – and reward it in all manner of ways.
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