“By '95 - in New York, alone - more Americans had died of AIDS than were killed in Vietnam.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then… — John Irving Feels Copy Share Image
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and… — John Irving Acceptable Copy Share Image
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark. — John Irving Dark Copy Share Image
“Let the grave mound grow a little grass, I always say; then it’s safe to look.” — 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
“Those who plead for the lives of the unborn should consider the lives of the living. ...the unborn are not as wretched… — John Irving Life Copy Share Image
“LIBERACE!' Owen would have cried. 'WHO WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IT POSSIBLE? LIBERACE! KILLED BY WATERMELONS!” — John Irving Copy Share Image
“A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems… — John Irving Books Copy Share Image
“DON’T GIVE IT ANOTHER THOUGHT,” he said. “WE’RE PALS, AREN’T WE? WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR? I’LL NEVER LEAVE YOU.” — John Irving Friendship Copy Share Image
“Ruth thought of a novel as a great, untidy house, a disorderly mansion; her job was to make the place fit to… — John Irving Books Copy Share Image
I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and… — John Irving Appreciated Copy Share Image
“Some producer actually told Franny that profanity revealed a poor vocabulary and a lack of imagination. And Frank and Lilly and Father… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Before I began The Cider House Rules, I thought I wanted to write about a father-son relationship that was closer, more conflicted,… — John Irving Cider Copy Share Image
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. — John Irving Architecture 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 Bad heart Copy Share Image
“...worst of all were the highly unlikely science-fiction novels, or the equally implausible futuristic tales. Couldn't my mom and Nana Victoria see… — John Irving Life-on-earth 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
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to… — John Irving Best 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
