All John Irving Quotes
- I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station. Finish
- My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were… Coach
- If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. Amazing Life
- If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product. Finished
- I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old… Age
- Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you… Files
- You can't learn everything you need to know legally. Feet
- Half my life is an act of revision. Act
- And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary… Alone
- You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. Get Obsessed
- I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there. Finding
- I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand. Always Preferred
- So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion. Fashion
- The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. Architecture
- There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep. Asleep
- There's no reason you should write any novel quickly. Any
- There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. Aware
- Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel. Comic
- Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. Actually Searching
- And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known… All