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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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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.
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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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I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
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My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!
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I have lots of notebooks around, because one great advantage of writing by hand-in addition to how much it slows you down-is that it makes me write at the speed that I feel I should be composing, rather than faster than I can think, which is what happens to me on any keyboard.
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I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that I would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule makes me, I suppose, seem all the more old-fashioned. I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
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There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
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He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.
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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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So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.
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Rituals are comforting rituals combat loneliness.
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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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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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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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And never forget, there is memory.
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