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Made 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…
- Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from…
- It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such…
- Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to…
- I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he…
- 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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