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John Irving Quotes

American - Novelist | March 2, 1942 -

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

Best Society Think Kind Try I Think

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.

Book Think You Sometimes Kind Where

I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.

Construction Believe Principal Mine

'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.

Writing Hand Years Whatever Twenty

Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do - I don't know that everybody can do that. That's the hard part.

Research Writing Ending You Know

I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open.

People Loved Nice Open Years Lived

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