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[…] “A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.” John Irving Original Source… […]
More quotes from John Irving here (he read in London on Monday night)
http://eastlondonlocal.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/john-irving-at-the-southbank/