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For John Irving, the need for a daily ration of solitude was his strongest “pre-writing” moment as a child.
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JOHN IRVING:
John Irving is the author of twelve books, including "The World According to Garp", "A Prayer For Owen Meany" and most recently, "Last Night on Twisted River". During his career, he won a National Book Award, an Academy Award for his adaptation of "The Cider House Rules" and numerous other honors, and has been translated into more than thirty languages. A former competitive wrestler, he divides his time between Vermont and Montreal.
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Question: Did you know from a young age that you would be a writer?
John Irving: I guess I had a number of what I might call pre-writing moments when I was a kid. I realized early on, I was certainly a preteen, that the school day was enough of a day to spend with my friends. I seemed to need to want to be alone. Before I even started taking almost landscape notes in a journal, before I even started keeping a diary, which happened to me when I was fourteen, before I even needed to walk home from school alone and being in a room by myself. myself or alone in my grandmother's garden. I guess the first sign was how much I liked being alone, how much I actually needed to be alone, like you need, or I need, exercise or food or a certain amount of sleep. There was this desire to be and a comfort to be alone.
Registered on: October 30, 2009
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