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Quotes from Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews — John Irving

born 1942 United States

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Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either.

Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1988)

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

Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1988)

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