I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described. — John Irving Action Copy Share Image
“And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.” — John Irving Book Copy Share Image
“Good night you Kings of New England. You Princes of Maine." Who knows what book this quote comes from?” — John Irving Books Copy Share Image
“living in a world where nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.” I” — John Irving Life Copy Share Image
“Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic," Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.” — John Irving Marriage Copy Share Image
“That’s what I love about boys,” Marion told him. “No matter what, you just go about your business.” — John Irving Boys Copy Share Image
One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an… — John Irving Actor Copy Share Image
When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next to the strange… — John Irving Copy Share Image
If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death… — John Irving Alive Copy Share Image
I don't want you to describe to me—not ever—what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that;… — John Irving Boys Copy Share Image
Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t… — John Irving Book Copy Share Image
“Wallace Worthington would have reminded Wilbur Larch of someone he might have met at the Channing-Peabodys’, where Dr. Larch went to perform… — John Irving Nobility Copy Share Image
“Although he knew all the best — or, at least, the least boring — stories in the Bible, Mr. Merrill was most… — John Irving Bible Copy Share Image
“Further along” is fairly specific compared to other New Hampshire forms of directions; we don’t enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire—we tend… — John Irving Giving directions Copy Share Image
“SMALLER, BUT I CAN STILL SEE YOU!” said Owen Meany. Then he left us; he was gone. I could tell by his… — John Irving Chain of command Copy Share Image
“That was the night he got up and went to the boys' division; perhaps he was looking for his history in the… — John Irving History Copy Share Image
“The situation Larch was thinking of was war, the so-called war in Europe; Larch, and many others, feared that the war wouldn’t… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“It is the well educated who will improve society—and they will improve it, at first, by criticizing it, and we are giving… — John Irving Education Copy Share Image
“The Reagan administration is full of such “careless people”; their kind of carelessness is immoral. And President Reagan calls himself a Christian!… — John Irving American people Copy Share Image
The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone… — John Irving Affection Copy Share Image
“As for the river, it just kept moving,as river do--as rivers do. Under the logs, the body of the young Canadian moved… — John Irving River Copy Share Image
He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get… — John Irving Beautiful Copy Share Image
'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing. — John Irving Books Copy Share Image
If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love,… — John Irving Caring Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to… — John Irving Abortion Copy Share Image
Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“pitch. This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.” — John Irving Pitch Copy Share Image
I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there. — John Irving Direction Copy Share Image
“Garp discovered that when you are writing something, everything seems related to everything else.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” — John Irving Courage Copy Share Image
“...friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.” — John Irving Friend Copy Share Image
The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Most men don't mind if another woman watches. It's the women who are watching who don't want to be seen.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind. — John Irving Life Copy Share Image
“[...]every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance toward the innocent” — John Irving Education Copy Share Image
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