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John Irving Quotes

American - Novelist | March 2, 1942 -

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

Architecture Building Never Craft

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

You Write Reason No Reason Should

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

Yourself You Reason Necessity Aware

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.

Simple Book Feel You Know Done

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.

People Think You Dumb Know See

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

Imagination World Think Interesting

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.

Know Damn Him Background Just He

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

Feel Write Director I Feel Like Like

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

Dark Matter Gray Write Whatever How

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

I Am Writing Know Will Never Finish

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

Work Time Fashion Real Timely Terms

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

Questions Choice Poor Record Very

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