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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
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New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.
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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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Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
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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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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.
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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.
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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.
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We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
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A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.
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Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)
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All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.
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The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.
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People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
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You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.
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The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
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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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My brain is sending poison to my heart.
John Irving