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
Quotes to Explore
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Everything has a place and time.
Kabir Bedi
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I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.
A. S. Byatt
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People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.
Hal Sparks
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Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.
Patrick Lencioni
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
Vernon Howard
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At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school.
Dan Stevens
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One thing at a time, as in the days when I was building Joshua. If I had wanted to build all the boat at once, the enormity of the task would have crushed me. I had to put all I had into the hull alone, without thinking about the rest. It would follow . . . with the help of the gods. Sailing non-stop around the world is the same. I do not think anyone has the means of pulling it off—at the start.
Bernard Moitessier
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Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.
Catharine Sedgwick
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There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I'm in prison. Come fetch me.' And No. 2 is, 'I've written a novel... and it's set in your hometown.'
Adriana Trigiani
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
Alan Greenspan
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
Salman Rushdie
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There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
John Irving