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Novels 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…
- You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't…
- I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting…
- 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…
- I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.
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- I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. — Nicholson Baker
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- Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. — Rita Mae Brown