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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 → ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 5 6 So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion. 0 There's no reason you should write any novel quickly. 0 I get up early. I like to read a little before anyone but the dog is up. I also like to read at night, not in bed but just before I go to bed. 0 I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels. 0 When I feel like being a director, I write a novel. 0 I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as... → 0 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... → 0 I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I... → 0 I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that... → 0 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.... → 0 I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the... → 0 I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that... → 0 My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long... → 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 5 6 Add a quote!


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