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“Half my life is an act of revision.”
 
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John Irving
 
Name:   John Irving
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Mar 2, 1942
 
Profession:   Novelist
 
 
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There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
 
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When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.
 
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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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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.
 
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