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In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
John Irving
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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
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John Winslow Irving
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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!
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There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
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I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.
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Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.
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This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.
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And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.
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When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.
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Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
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You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
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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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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.
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Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story rumors don't care what's true.
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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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