“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen… — John Irving 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Of course I knew then where Hester had hidden Owen Meany; he’d been under the couch cushions—and under her!—all the while we… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“while we waited to see what God would do. I heard a tear fall—it was one of my grandmother’s tears, and I… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“But the penultimate paragraph of the novel is naturally the passage I wrote first. “When we held Owen Meany above our heads,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on… — Pat Conroy 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 Copy Share Image
“he had seen his share of heroes, too. Major Rawls never knew everything that Owen had known; the major knew only that… — John Irving 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 Copy Share Image
“Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany, some years Wuthering Heights, Silas… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“From Hester’s bedroom—even though the door was closed—we could hear her breathing; Hester’s breathing, when she’d been drinking, was something between a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event;… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest… — John Irving 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 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 Copy Share Image
This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“IT HAS TO DO WITH ALL OF US,” said Owen Meany, when I called him that night. “SHE WAS JUST LIKE OUR… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Owen Meany had believed that his death was necessary if others were to be saved from a stupidity and hatred that was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“It was Owen Meany who taught me that any good book is always in motion—from the general to the specific, from the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
