I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, "I could never have… — John Irving Book Copy Share Image
Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,” Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.” Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of… — John Irving Addict Copy Share Image
Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t… — John Irving Book Copy Share Image
I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there. — John Irving Findings Copy Share Image
“Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical… — John Irving Autobiographical Copy Share Image
“It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.” — John Irving Matter 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 Freud Copy Share Image
It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but… — John Irving Bus Copy Share Image
The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human… — John Irving Bears Copy Share Image
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of… — John Irving Fall Copy Share Image
Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life! — John Irving Hampshire Copy Share Image
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions. — John Irving Believe Copy Share Image
“Jenny Fields felt undone, the way only a person who has been careful can feel when confronted by a mistake.” — John Irving Failure Copy Share Image
I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it. — John Irving Believe Copy Share Image
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. — John Irving Abortion Copy Share Image
He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that… — John Irving Abundance Copy Share Image
“Dr. Gingrich and Mrs. Goodhall had prevailed upon the board of trustees; the board had requested that Larch comply with Dr. Gingrich’s… — John Irving Success Copy Share Image
If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one. — John Irving Feels Copy Share Image
Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my… — John Irving Ability Copy Share Image
