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Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
John Irving
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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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I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.
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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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Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.
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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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You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.
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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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A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.
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I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure. It doesn't bother me if people feel that way.
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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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We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
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Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.
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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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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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I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.
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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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Thus we try to keep our heroes alive hence we remember them.
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I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.
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