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You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.

~John Irving

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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

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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.

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When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

~John Irving

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Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

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My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

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I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

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So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

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I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

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If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 2nd, 1942

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