Quotes by Irving, John

Half my life is an act of revision. >>

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep l >>

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. >>

Quotations about Fiction

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by givi >>

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that re >>

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending. >>

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

Irving, John