She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all. — John Irving Judging Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you what's wrong with dumb-shit patriotism--it's delusional! It signifies nothing but the American need to win” — John Irving Patriotism Copy Share Image
Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything. — John Irving Appearance Copy Share Image
“He felt like hearing Mrs. Grogan’s prayer again, and so he went to the girls’ division a little early for his usual… — John Irving Long way Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are… — John Irving Book Copy Share Image
“Ah, well..." I started to say, and then stopped. So that was where he was going; I'd heard it before. Richard had… — John Irving Intolerance Copy Share Image
I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never… — John Irving Clear Copy Share Image
Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they… — John Irving Choose Copy Share Image
Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than… — John Irving Angela Copy Share Image
“We tend to think that if you don't know where you're goin, you don't belong where you are.” — john irving Copy Share Image
“to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal,’”… — John Irving Courage Copy Share Image
“He might have told Homer, then, that he loved him very much and that he needed something very active to occupy himself… — John Irving Love Copy Share Image
(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited… — John Irving Action Copy Share Image
“It was not necessarily what Ketchum might have said about the war in Iraq, or the never-ending mess in the Middle East,… — John Irving Middle east Copy Share Image
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their… — John Irving Certain Copy Share Image
…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus. — John Irving Found Copy Share Image
I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I… — John Irving Exercise Copy Share Image
