A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly. — John Irving Inspirational Copy Share Image
This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all. — John Irving Imagine Copy Share Image
Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before… — John Irving Aftermath Copy Share Image
“it's not god who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in him and who claim to pursue their ends… — John Irving Christian-behavior Copy Share Image
“There were those apres-sex moments when, in a half-asleep or forgetting that I was with a woman, I would reach out and… — John Irving Time Copy Share Image
“I met him in the language lab. In a lull between lab sections, I was editing tapes for freshman German when this… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of… — John Irving Books Copy Share Image
“...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.” — John Irving Life Copy Share Image
Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up… — John Irving Believe Copy Share Image
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she… — John Irving Book Copy Share Image
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends. — John Irving Doe Copy Share Image
“Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness before it jolted him - it caught him… — John Irving Books Copy Share Image
“The Winkles were in the business of manufacturing sensations for people who were so removed from any sensations of their own making… — John Irving Business Copy Share Image
“LAST NITE I HAD A DREAM. NOW I KNOW FOUR THINGS. I KNOW THAT MY VOICE DOESN’T CHANGE – BUT I STILL… — John Irving Dreams Copy Share Image
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to… — John Irving Book Copy Share Image
“When an orphan is depressed," wrote Wilbur Larch, "he is attracted to telling lies. A lie is at least a vigorous enterprise,… — John Irving Fate Copy Share Image
I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole. — John Irving Any Copy Share Image
When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When… — John Irving Enough Copy Share Image
“Most men don't mind if another woman watches. It's the women who are watching who don't want to be seen.” — John Irving Another woman Copy Share Image
“to burn itself on a funeral pyre and then rise up from its own ashes. Under the drawing, Owen had written: “OFTEN… — John Irving Death Copy Share Image
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that… — John Irving Begin Copy Share Image
Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see… — John Irving America Copy Share Image
Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or… — John Irving Be good Copy Share Image
