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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 78 quotes by John Irving John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt, Jr. on March 2, 1942), is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. Some of Irving's novels, such as The Cider House Rules (1985), A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), and A Widow for One Year (1998), have been bestsellers. Five of his novels have been adapted to film.... Read full biography of John Irving → 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ctrl → If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. 0 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... → 0 Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you. 0 If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product. 0 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... → 0 With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's... → 0 Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I... → 0 More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes... → 0 I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I... → 0 I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that... → 0 You can't learn everything you need to know legally. 0 Good habits are worth being fanatical about. 0 And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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