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First Quotes by John Irving
- I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
- 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…
- …there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.
- 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…
- I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first…
- 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…
- 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…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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