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John Irving Quotes

American - Novelist | March 2, 1942 -

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

People Action Easy You Look Find

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

Alone Time Myself Being Alone Better

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

Child World Real Things Real World

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.

Family Father I Am Me Everything

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.

You Wrong Say Old Coach Trophies

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

Writing First Always Drafts Written

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

Language Finding Know Matter Going

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 solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

Myself Writing Ending Voice Story

I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.

Life Freedom Great Me Think Feel

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

Love Process You Product More Must

I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.

Life Father Mother Day Me Name

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

Laughter People Sympathy Seriously

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