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Write Quotes by John Irving
- It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
- When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.
- So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm writing that book…
- I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old…
- There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
- Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.
- 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…
- The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way…
- 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 write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a…
- 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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