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How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.

John Irving

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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Book Memories Tears
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Imagine Remember Stories
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
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
I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, “I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure.” It doesn’t bother me if people feel that way.
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Book People Procedure Way
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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Anything Dead Remember Watched
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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Sunday Teenage Years
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
Death, it seems,” Garp wrote, “does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.
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Death Dramatic Indulgent Waiting
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
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Adults Resentment Teenagers
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
A novel is a piece of architecture. It’s not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It’s a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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Diaries Floor Wall Writing
When writing a novel, I’m not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don’t know what it is.
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Enough Smart Writing

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