It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly. — John Irving Adults 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 Books Copy Share Image
“Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food. What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue… — John Irving Bad habit Copy Share Image
“If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we… — John Irving Strength Copy Share Image
“…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom… — John Irving Any Copy Share Image
“...friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.” — John Irving Friendship Copy Share Image
“What do you think I imagine making love to a vagina would be like? Maybe like having sex with a ballroom!” — John Irving Ballroom Copy Share Image
If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook… — John Irving Care Copy Share Image
“Further along” is fairly specific compared to other New Hampshire forms of directions; we don’t enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire—we tend… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“REMEMBER WATAHANTOWET?” he asked me. “I remember,” I said. Then he smiled at the “penguin” who was trying to make him comfortable… — John Irving Copy Share Image
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior. — John Irving Behavior Copy Share Image
“Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers - or to anyone who believes in *pure* good, or in pure evil.” — John Irving Pure evil 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 Books Copy Share Image
“Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare… — John Irving Humor Copy Share Image
Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need… — John Irving Abortion Copy Share Image
“Among these contemptuous women, poor Germaine had the disadvantage of being young--and almost pretty, in a shy, mousy way. She possessed the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Just accept as a fact that everyone of any emotional importance to you is related to everyone else of any emotional importance… — John Irving Change your life Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that… — John Irving Attempting Copy Share Image
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of… — John Irving Cases Copy Share Image
When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story… — John Irving Firsts Copy Share Image
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us. — John Irving Gender Copy Share Image
“Dr. Larch bent over him and kissed him, very lightly, on his lips. Homer heard Dr. Larch whisper, ‘Good work, Homer.’ He… — John Irving Last time Copy Share Image
