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John Irving's Twenty Year Sentence

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Uploaded by on Nov 5, 2009

For even our best writers, penning that final sentence can be a difficult and tortuous affair. For John Irving, who never begins a novel without knowing its concluding words, this sentence took two decades

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  • He seems like a really nice guy.

  • Writers write a story.

    Great writers discover a story that's already there.

  • is it ok to say, what?

  • I don't do much writing, but I know how hard it can be to end a work from my musical compositions. I might consider trying his strategy; ending the piece before I start writing it.

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