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A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

John Irving

I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.
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Change More Patient Waiting
There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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Aware Constantly Reason
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
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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Kind Thinking Together
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
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Phrases Thinking Today
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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Ability Burden Feels
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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Cancer Reading Real
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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Character Differences Important
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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Heart Normal Symtons
A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
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Jobs Memories Writing
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology

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