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I’ve always been slow but I’m even slower now. I’m more into the waiting, or I guess I’m more patient about the waiting.

John Irving

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.
JOHN IRVING

Minutes Way Writing
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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Combat Comforting Loneliness
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
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
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
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
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Mean People Religious
We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it – and reward it in all manner of ways.
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Country Rewards Way
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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Future Nothing Scary
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
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Creative Maps Writing
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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Character Differences Important
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
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.
JOHN IRVING

People Sound Trying
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
…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Innocent Study Vengeance
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
JOHN IRVING

Die Dies Everybody

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