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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.

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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Our memory is a monster you forget it - it does not.
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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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I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
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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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I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
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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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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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My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.
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… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign it is at least a form of being human.
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The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.
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I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
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People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
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If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?
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If you asked me one day, I might say, Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious. If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, No.
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There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
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It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.
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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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My life is a reading list.
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A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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