“Again, Homer felt the nudge in his ribs, and Mr. Rose said, mildly, ‘You all so uneducated – Homer’s havin’ a little… — John Irving Man To Man Copy Share Image
I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand. — John Irving Firsts 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 Death Copy Share Image
“That was when Angel Wells became a fiction writer, whether he knew it or not. That's when he learned how to make… — John Irving Indian summer Copy Share Image
“You are my work of art," Wilbur Larch told Homer Wells. "Everything else has just been a job. I don't know if… — John Irving Art Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Adolescence Copy Share Image
“What worse awareness is there than to know there would have been a better outcome if you'd never done anything at all?” — John Irving Knowledge Copy Share Image
I have lots of notebooks around, because one great advantage of writing by hand-in addition to how much it slows you down-is… — John Irving Advantage Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after… — John Irving Backgrounds Copy Share Image
“What she might have told him was that taxidermy, like sex, is a very personal subject; the manner in which we impose… — John Irving Copy Share Image
…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time. — John Irving Compare Copy Share Image
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is… — John Irving Agendas Copy Share Image
“Unlike Alice, Garp was a real writer —not because he wrote more beautifully than she wrote but because he knew what every… — John Irving Writing Copy Share Image
“...one of the more sophisticated and accepting things about Europe, when it came to difficult decisions regarding sexual identity, was that the… — John Irving Accepting things Copy Share Image
YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER… — John Irving Let me Copy Share Image
Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to. — John Irving Dying Copy Share Image
It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived. — John Irving Been hurt Copy Share Image
“We don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire-we tend to think if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where… — John Irving 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
“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 Books Copy Share Image
Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.. — John Irving Beer Copy Share Image
Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare. — John Irving Adults Copy Share Image
