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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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The concept of writing a novel and not knowing where it's going - I don't know how to do that. Novels are plot- and character-driven, so if I don't know what becomes of people, how can I know where it should begin?
John Irving
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You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
John Irving
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I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
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But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete.
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My life is a reading list.
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Half my life is an act of revision.
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I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm writing that book review for every bad book reviewer I've ever known and it's a way of saying [thrusts a middle finger into the air] this is how you ought to do it. I like to rub their noses in it.
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I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.
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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.
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I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
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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 ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving-Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.
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When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.
John Irving
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In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
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. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .
John Irving