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I have a very poor record at m...

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

John Irving 305 quotes

To each other, we were as norm...

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

John Irving 305 quotes

I've always been a fan of the ...

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 as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.

John Irving 305 quotes

I never know when I finish the...

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

John Irving 305 quotes

My old coach used to say that ...

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

John Irving 305 quotes

So, I don't work in terms of r...

So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

John Irving 305 quotes

The building of the architectu...

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

John Irving 305 quotes

There are few things as seemin...

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

John Irving 305 quotes

There's no reason you should w...

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

John Irving 305 quotes

There's no reason you shouldn'...

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

John Irving 305 quotes

Whatever I write, no matter ho...

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

John Irving 305 quotes

Writing a novel is actually se...

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

John Irving 305 quotes

And I don't want to begin some...

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 to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

John Irving 305 quotes

I don't begin a novel or a scr...

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.

John Irving 305 quotes

I had been a student in Vienna...

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.

John Irving 305 quotes

No adult in my family would ev...

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

John Irving 305 quotes

Sigmund Freud was a novelist w...

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

John Irving 305 quotes

When I was still in prep schoo...

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

John Irving 305 quotes

You know, people think you hav...

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. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

John Irving 305 quotes

Imagining something is better ...

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

John Irving 305 quotes

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