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John Irving Quotes & Sayings

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33 entries tagged including 14 subtopics.
Last updated Oct 2023

John Irving Topics

Biography
Beliefs
Humor
Laughter
Memory
Obsessions
Youth
Priorities
Caring
Courage
Life
Love
Protection

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If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

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Protection quotes

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We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

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Priorities quotes

Oh fu.. the longings and agonies of youth.

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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

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Obsessions quotes

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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I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

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Laughter quotes

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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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. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

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You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.

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You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

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When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

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To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

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

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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 something I never tire of.

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Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.

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Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

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