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I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.
John Irving

Biography

Author Profession: Novelist
Nationality: American
Born: March 2, 1942

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You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
John Irving

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
John Irving

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
John Irving

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
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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.
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Age, Became, Coached, Competed, Contact, Discipline, Given, Involved, Kind, Old, Sport, Think, Until, Which, Wrestling, Write