I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often a big difference in how much we love and understand each other and how little we’re understood or appreciated by people who spend their weekends watching basketball.
John IrvingIn an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
John IrvingYou can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
John IrvingI've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
John Irving