John Irving - My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those ...

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My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

John Irving

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Meine erste Attraktion für das Schreiben von Romanen war die Handlung, das fast ausgestorbene Tier. Die Romane, die ich gelesen habe und die mich dazu veranlasst haben, ein Romanautor zu werden, waren lange, immer geplante Romane - nicht nur viktorianische Romane, sondern auch die meiner Vorfahren aus New England: Herman Melville und Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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