Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
JOHN IRVINGI never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
More John Irving Quotes
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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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It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
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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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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
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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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There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.
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It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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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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The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
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No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
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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.
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So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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