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I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.

~John Irving

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I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

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I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.

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My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.

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'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.

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I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open.

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I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 2nd, 1942

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