“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
Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy. — John Irving Childhood 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 Boys Copy Share Image
“…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.” — John Irving Consequences 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
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
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
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
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
“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
In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel,… — John Irving Ability Copy Share Image
I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at… — John Irving Accident 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
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
“Dr. Gingrich, who was increasingly fascinated with the leaps of Mrs. Goodhall’s mind, was still marveling over the confusing image of a… — John Irving Increasingly Fascinated 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
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
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo.… — John Irving Books Copy Share Image
So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm… — John Irving Air Copy Share Image
“In Wally’s bedroom Homer marveled at how the world was simultaneously being invented and destroyed. Nothing marvelous about that, Dr. Larch would… — John Irving Dr Larch Copy Share Image
“It was Nurse Caroline who introduced Homer to young Dr. Harlow, who was in the throes of growing out his bangs; a… — John Irving Dr Harlow 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
“When we held Owen Meany above our heads, when we passed him back and forth - so effortlessly - we believed that… — John Irving Owen Meany 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
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces… — John Irving Another day Copy Share Image
“The night she died, Dan found her propped up in her hospital bed; she appeared to have fallen asleep with the TV… — John Irving Television Copy Share Image
![“So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm writing that book review for every bad book reviewer I've ever known and it's a way of saying [thrusts a middle finger into the air] this is how you ought to do it. I like to rub their noses in…” quote by John Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b5d/john-irving-337_air_so-you-see-it-s-a-real-chore-for-me-to-w_1152495.jpg)
