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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

By John Irving
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.

By John Irving
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.

By John Irving
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

By John Irving
And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

By John Irving