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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

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
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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Exhausting Knows Seventeen
If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
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Moral Pride Sin
There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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Aware Constantly Reason
Keep passing the open windows.
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Depression Encouraging Life
Our memory is a monster; you forget it – it does not.
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Doe Memories Monsters
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready
I 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.
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Civilization Perception Years
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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Abortion Choice Choices Freedom
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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Courses Interesting Lying
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Life Opera Soap
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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Stories Victim Writing
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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Adults Resentment Teenagers
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
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
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Lessons Moral

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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