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Very Quotes by John Irving
- It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want…
- If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the…
- I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.
- I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and…
- 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…
- I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
- But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
- 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.…
- If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you…
- 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 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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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
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- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong