All John Irving Quotes
- If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good.… All
- Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we… Beings
- In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of… Add
- Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England. England
- Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.. Anticlimax
- And never forget, there is memory. Forget
- The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way… Behave
- The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size. Always Imagined
- In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals,… Absentees
- It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the… Ability
- Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently. Bears
- It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound. Inspirational
- I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said. "DON'T SOUND… Ashamed
- She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all. All
- This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate… Christlike
- I don't want you to describe to me—not ever—what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you… Boy
- wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading. Glows
- What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support… Aid
- People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers. Answers
- It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that… Arrangements