John Irving
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John Winslow Irving (born March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (for The Cider House Rules, based on his novel of the same name).
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- He wrote Helen that "a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you."
- The World According to Garp (1978), ch. 5
- Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory.
- The World According to Garp, ch. 5
- In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
- The World According to Garp, ch. 19
- To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
- The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), ch. 6
- You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
- The Hotel New Hampshire, ch. 11
- You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
- A Widow for One Year (1998), part II, ch. 7
[edit] Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1988)
Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, Penguin, 1988, ISBN 0-140-10761-4
- 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.
- Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
