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 IRVINGThe 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.
More John Irving Quotes
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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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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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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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It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
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So, I don’t work in terms of real time. I don’t work in a timely fashion.
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THERE’S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,’ he told the voters. ‘IF YOU’RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
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It’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
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When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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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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Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
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There’s nothing as scary as the future.
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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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…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them…they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
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