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Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
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 still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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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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My life is a reading list.
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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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People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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The more clearly one sees this world the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.
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Keep passing the open windows.
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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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You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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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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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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It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support they want someone to say, Good job.
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I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
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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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Your memory is a monster you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory but it has you!
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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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If I had to be anything, he told her, I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.
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