And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write t...
Quotes John Irving
And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and jus...
Good habits are worth being fanatical about....
Half my life is an act of revision....
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the endin...
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little t...
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be ...
I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in t...
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriousl...
I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with...
I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the nov...
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you ...
More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as ...
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who ...
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. H...
Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all...
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of i...
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real worl...
There's no reason you should write any novel quickly....
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware o...
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of br...
When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping...
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I writ...
You can't learn everything you need to know legally....
You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basical...
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