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  1. John Irving _ The Imaginary Girlfriend

    I didn't "teach" Ron Hansen or Stephen Wright or T. Coraghessan Boyle or Susan Taylor Chehak or Allan Gurganus or Gail Harper or Kent Haruf or Robert Chibka or Douglas Unger how to write, but I hope I may have encouraged them and saved them a little time. I did nothing more for them than Kurt Vonnegut did for me, but in my case Mr. Vonnegut-and Mr. Yount and Mr. Williams-did quite a lot. I'm talking about technical blunders, the perpetration of sheer boredom, point-of-view problems, the different qualities of first-person and third-person voice, the deadening effect of exposition in dialogue, the crippling limitations of the present tense, the intrusions upon narrative momentum caused by puerile and pointless experimentation-and on and on.
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  2. John Irving _ The Imaginary Girlfriend

    You just go up the Hudson," I told him. "Sure, man," he said. "Up the what?
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  3. John Irving _ The Imaginary Girlfriend

    Most self-destructive behavior is simply ridiculous-never mind how complexly compelled by personal demons.
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