Irving's Deliberate Echoes
According to novelist John Irving, a little bit of repetition in your writing can be a good thing.
"Deliberate echoes appear in my books," he explains.
The day that I met him at the National Book Festival in Washington DC, he talked about the craft of writing. He'll be the first to admit that he is an over-writer, a trait he's proud to share with Charles Dickens and Nathaniel Hawthorne, two of his favorite writers. And he also admits that many of the same themes appear and reappear from one novel to the next—and within the same novel.
What sort of echoes? "Repeating sentences, paragraphs, ideas," he elaborated.
Irving takes some comfort in knowing he's not alone. "Writers repeat themselves. It's evidence that you have something important to say."
Learn more about the author at the link below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ir...
"Deliberate echoes appear in my books," he explains.
The day that I met him at the National Book Festival in Washington DC, he talked about the craft of writing. He'll be the first to admit that he is an over-writer, a trait he's proud to share with Charles Dickens and Nathaniel Hawthorne, two of his favorite writers. And he also admits that many of the same themes appear and reappear from one novel to the next—and within the same novel.
What sort of echoes? "Repeating sentences, paragraphs, ideas," he elaborated.
Irving takes some comfort in knowing he's not alone. "Writers repeat themselves. It's evidence that you have something important to say."
Learn more about the author at the link below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ir...
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