There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
JOHN IRVINGI will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
More John Irving Quotes
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Keep passing the open windows.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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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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Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
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Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
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All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.
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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
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My life is a reading list.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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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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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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You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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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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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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