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Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time. ↗

— Stephanie Zimbalist

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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time. ↗

— Jacqueline Susann

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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. ↗

— John Irving

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

— John Irving

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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. ↗

— John Irving

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And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone. ↗

— John Irving

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I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand. ↗

— John Irving

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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. ↗

— John Irving

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More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. ↗

— John Irving

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