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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.

John Irving

Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents’ own rule.
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Children Moments Parent
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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Faults Meany Owen Responsibility
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
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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Friend Good Meany Owen Supportive
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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Dumb Monkeys Voters
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
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
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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Love Reason Writing
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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Matter Said Something Writing
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
The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
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Architecture Crafts Writing
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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Cousin Father Years
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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Exercise Sex Sleep Writing
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

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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