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I Write Quotes by John Irving
- When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.
- Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.
- Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
- 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…
- 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…
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