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John Irving Quotes

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.

John Irving

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 2, 1942

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Ignorance Start Long You Write Head

Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.

Joe Lonsdale

Work Success Failure Time People

Celebrating Christmas without subscribing to Christianity is like watching the Super Bowl without watching a regular season game. Some people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials; others watch it for the halftime show.

Andrew Shaffer

People Game Super Bowl Christmas

My greatest love in life is to develop projects. I just get a huge kick out of that. I've been doing it since ever I could.

Andrew Forrest

Life Love Doing Out Greatest Get

I would really love to go on an archaeological dig.

Megan Fox

Love Go Dig Would Really

I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them.

John Patrick Shanley

Money Writing Eye Rent Write Pay

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.

Ann Coulter

Cute Kind Nonsense Liberals Wartime

I actually have a pretty good sense of humor.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Good Humor Sense Of Humor Pretty

I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.

Simon Toyne

Work Words Talent Story Down Know

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Robert Frost

Life Art Care Take Care Horse Sell

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Grace Political Karma Theme Writer

I definitely will reach out to Cuban in the near future for advice going forward. Now that I'll be on the business side of things - and he's had a lot of success with that - that would be a guy to go to.

Jason Kidd

Success Future Business Forward Go

I remember as a little kid watching the Opry from the nosebleeds, so to stand onstage and be invited to be a member was really, really cool.

Jay DeMarcus

Cool Stand Remember Watching Kid