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And never forget, there is memory.

John Irving

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Memory
Memories
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If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.
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Our memory is a monster you forget it - it does not.
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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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Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.
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Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.
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…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.
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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?
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My life is a reading list.
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Life is an X-rated soap opera.
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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'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.
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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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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.
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For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other novels waiting to be written next. And the decision driving which one of them it should be was never based on how long it had waited or how many accumulated pages of notes I had.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
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If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.
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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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Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you
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Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.
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