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Something Quotes by John Irving
- Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
- It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
- If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
- The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
- 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…
- You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else.…
- Imagining something is better than remembering something.
- If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes…
- Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,†Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.†Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who…
- Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.
- If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good.…
- It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the…
- I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said. "DON'T SOUND…
- I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or the…
- Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.
- You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
- If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to…
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