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I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.

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John Irving

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.

Character, Thinking, Trying, Action, Begin
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I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or the equivalent of photographs in one's imagination of anyone's life. A whole life, I mean. I can picture her when she was much younger than I am - because there are always gestures and expressions that are ingrained, ageless. An old woman doesn't see herself as an old woman, and neither do I. I try to see her her whole life in her. There's something so moving about someone's whole life.

Moving, Mean, Expression, Woman, Said

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Fanatical, Generosity, Good Habits, Habit, Habits, Worth

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

Kill, Notice, Owen Meany, Tax, Taxes, Way

My life is a reading list.

Life, Life Is, List, Lists, Reading

I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am attracted to what makes them angry, what makes them passionate, what outrages them, what they applaud and find sympathetic in human beings and what they detest about human beings, too. They are writers of great emotional range.

Angry, Emotional, Passionate, Silly, Style, Vonnegut
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