Quotes about John Irving

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I...

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I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this...

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I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I...

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I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I...

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Half my life is an act of revision.

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Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

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And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just...

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And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence...

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Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away....

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

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You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes....

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You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior...

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