Life is serious but art is fun!
JOHN IRVINGI 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.
More John Irving Quotes
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Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
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Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
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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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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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I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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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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Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don’t mean that you can’t also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.
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I’ve always preferred writing in longhand. I’ve always written first drafts in longhand.
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If you asked me one day, I might say, “Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious.” If you asked me another day, I’d just say flat out, “No.”
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Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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