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  • How about casually dropping the name of John Irving, possibly America’s greatest novelist.

    The Hardcore Diaries Mick Foley 2007

  • How about casually dropping the name of John Irving, possibly America’s greatest novelist.

    The Hardcore Diaries Mick Foley 2007

  • I'm always envious of writers who can write that way, I know some writers, and have read interviews with writers, such as John Irving, who always start with the end.

    Talking With: Wally Lamb 2008

  • To paraphrase John Irving in The World According to Garp…you’re gonna have to miss her for the rest of your lives, so the world will just have to forgive you now for wallowing in it.

    Firedoglake » Greta Hamsher Murphy, 1924-2006 2006

  • A few of my favorite authors are Ann Beattie, John Irving, and Lionel Shriver.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • I spent a lot of time in my local library, checking out books about writing and writers, from Truman Capote to Gabriel García Márquez to George Plimpton to Gay Talese to William Shakespeare to Willie Morris to John Irving.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • Comparisons to John Irving make sense since like Irving Harbach is a deceptively straightforward writer with a talent for character and narrative.

    Michael Giltz: Books: Marriage Plots, Baseball Woes, Economist Superheroes and the Opium Wars Michael Giltz 2011

  • I spent a lot of time in my local library, checking out books about writing and writers, from Truman Capote to Gabriel García Márquez to George Plimpton to Gay Talese to William Shakespeare to Willie Morris to John Irving.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • Comparisons to John Irving make sense since like Irving Harbach is a deceptively straightforward writer with a talent for character and narrative.

    Michael Giltz: Books: Marriage Plots, Baseball Woes, Economist Superheroes and the Opium Wars Michael Giltz 2011

  • A few of my favorite authors are Ann Beattie, John Irving, and Lionel Shriver.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

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