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Begin Quotes by John Irving
- Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are…
- And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known…
- I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens.…
- Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you
- Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind…
- 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…
- 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…
- One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does…
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- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood