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John Irving

"I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination."

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"I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination."

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Akiroq Brost

"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."

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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."

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Akiroq Brost

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"

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Akiroq Brost

"Creativity is the residue of time wasted."

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"It feels great to read but greater to write."

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Akiroq Brost

"For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse."

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Akiroq Brost

"To be creative means to be in love with life."

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"Creativity is admired only if it solves the problem."

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"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."

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"A writer cannot serve today those who make history, he must serve those who are subject to it."

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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."

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John Irving
"It s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans."

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John Irving
"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."

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John Irving
"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."

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John Irving
"She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defined the character or the episode or the atmosphere. Fictional truth was what should have happened in a story - not necessarily what did happen or what had happened."

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John Irving
"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

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John Irving
"People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a kind of support.' And who can blame them? It is just infuriating to argue with someone like that; because of an experience that has denied them their humanity, they go around denying another kind of humanity in others, which is the truth of human variety -- it stands alongside our sameness."

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John Irving
"We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them."

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John Irving
"Half my life is an act of revision."

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John Irving
"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with."

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