Quotes by John Irving

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks,...

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To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We...

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There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to...

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There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

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There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

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The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is...

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Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes....

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Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was...

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No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was....

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More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer...

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I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is...

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I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of...

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