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John Irving

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
JOHN IRVING

Actor Skins Thinking
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 IRVING

Exercise Sex Sleep 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
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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People Sound Trying
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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Nervous Not Afraid People
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.
JOHN IRVING

Book Memories Tears
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
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Hands Nice Squeezing
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
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Be Kind Bird Rhinos
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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Fashion Real Term Work
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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Finished Process Product
Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
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Condescend Inferiors People

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