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John Irving Quotes

Type: Novelist   |    Date of Birth: 1942-03-02   |    Year of Death:    |    Nationality: American
Half my life is an act of revision.
John Irving

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
John Irving

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

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

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

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
John Irving

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
John Irving


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