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

 

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


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This quote is just one of 12 total John Irving quotes in our collection. John Irving is known for saying 'Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.' as well as some of the following quotes.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

John Irving

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

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.

John Irving

When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?

John Irving

Half my life is an act of revision.

John Irving