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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Soap
Opera
Life
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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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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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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.
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She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.
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Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!
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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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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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Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
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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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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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I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.
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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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Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story rumors don't care what's true.
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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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I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
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You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.
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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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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
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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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