22 Quotes by John Irving about Writing
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The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
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A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
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There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.
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I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.
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