Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy. — John Irving Childhood Copy Share Image
“…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.” — John Irving Consequences Copy Share Image
“living in a world where nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.” I” — John Irving Life Copy Share Image
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
He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted. — John Irving Gifted Copy Share Image
“That’s what I love about boys,” Marion told him. “No matter what, you just go about your business.” — John Irving Business Copy Share Image
All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man. — John Irving Liars Copy Share Image
I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a… — John Irving Action Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; it summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you. — John Irving Memories Copy Share Image
All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior… — John Irving Judging Copy Share Image
I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand.… — John Irving Always Copy Share Image
When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story… — John Irving Firsts Copy Share Image
“Wherever Melony went, she would not be without guidance, she would not be without love, without faith; she had a good book… — John Irving Books Copy Share Image
“The point was - he wasn't acting . It was as if he'd forgotten how! Jack still knew his lines, but he… — John Irving Actor Copy Share Image
It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities… — John Irving Best friend Copy Share Image
“Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his… — John Irving Fiction Copy Share Image
I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34,… — John Irving Age Copy Share Image
For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other… — John Irving Book Copy Share Image
It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen… — John Irving Book Copy Share Image
Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up… — John Irving Believe Copy Share Image
“Among these contemptuous women, poor Germaine had the disadvantage of being young--and almost pretty, in a shy, mousy way. She possessed the… — John Irving Contemptuous Copy Share Image
“Wilbur Larch knew that freedom was an orphan’s most dangerous illusion, and when he finally heard from Homer, he scanned the oddly… — John Irving Freedom Copy Share Image
“In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken… — John Irving Humor Copy Share Image
Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we… — John Irving Contact Copy Share Image
I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he… — John Irving Awkward Copy Share Image
Here is the trap you are in… And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need… — John Irving Abortion Copy Share Image
“AND LOOK AT WHAT WE CALL ‘RELIGION’: TURN ON ANY TELEVISION ON ANY SUNDAY MORNING! SEE THE CHOIRS OF THE POOR AND… — John Irving Church and state Copy Share Image
“Doris Wales was a woman with straw-blond hair whose body appeared to have been dipped in corn oil; then she must have… — John Irving Love Bites Copy Share Image
“What I saw in Washington that October were a lot of Americans who were genuinely dismayed by what their country was doing… — John Irving Armed forces Copy Share Image
“Candy felt helpless; no one seemed to understand why she was standing there. Children were colliding with her at hip level, and… — John Irving Children Copy Share Image
“Almost none of them understood Great Expectations or David Copperfield, anyway. They were not only too young for the Dickensian language, they… — John Irving Great expectations Copy Share Image
“Because of A Prayer for Owen Meany, many of my readers assume I am “religious.” I go to church only occasionally—like a… — John Irving Believe in god Copy Share Image
“who are always right, and are given to reminding us of it, are irritating; prophets are irritating, and Owen Meany is decidedly… — John Irving Best friend Copy Share Image
“Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food. What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue… — John Irving Bad habit Copy Share Image
