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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

John Irving

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
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Centered Religion Self
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
Life is serious but art is fun!
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Art Fun Life
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
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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Scene Treatment Voice
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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Cancer Reading Real
…I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
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Doors Growing Long
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.
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Minutes Way Writing
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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Bears Practice Promise
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us — not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.
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Childhood Events Loss
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Country Hopeful Thinking
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
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

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