John Irving Quotes

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

John Irving

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YourselfYouReasonNecessityAware

Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.

Joe Torre

IgnoreYouSomethingCannot

Let's start off with my father being a mailman. So I understand the concerns of all the folks across this country, some of whom having trouble, you know, making ends meet.

John Kasich

FatherStartYouTroubleKnowMeet

History told me that you just keep working, and it is easy to make more money.

John McAfee

HistoryMoneyMeEasyYouMore

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

Robert Stone

WritingProcessDoingYouCreating

Though some choices may slow our journey, every path we take gives us more familiarity with how our actions affect the world around us, giving us more opportunities to learn how to help ourselves and others.

Matthew Underwood

JourneyPathWorldOpportunities

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

Michael Haneke

DailyWarKnowWayCivil WarUs

After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.

Robbie Robertson

MindMeHealthyOutConcertLast

I'm an invention of the Internet. I'm like, the Internet went away for a few years and designed what the perfect online personality would look like and came back with me.

Milo Yiannopoulos

PersonalityMeInternetPerfectLook

I remember I had a boyfriend a long time ago who said, 'You need to change your name; you sound like a circus performer.'

Lucy Punch

ChangeTimeNameRememberLongYou

Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.

Judith Tarr

WorkPowerMagicMatterMattersWho

I like getting older. I always looked younger than I was, and I found that people wouldn't give me the room to speak. The older I get, it's like, 'Oh, I'm still talking, and they're still listening.'

Johnny Flynn

Getting OlderPeopleMeListening

Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.

Deborah Moggach

ConfidenceYourselfWorldKeyYou

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