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Stories Quotes by John Irving
- Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the…
- 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…
- Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into…
- Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front…
- I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost…
- Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
- 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…
- Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
- 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 have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.’…
- Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.
- And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the…
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