All John Irving Quotes
- If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you… Control
- so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no… Appear
- Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them. Alive
- Life is an X-rated soap opera. Life
- We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky,… Another Sometimes
- I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye. Action
- Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind… Along
- He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against… Abortion
- Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she… Believed
- People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to… Amused
- They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. Awkward
- O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You. Asking
- Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have… All
- when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble. Always Going
- Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that… Bottom
- If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves. Become Caricatures
- Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie. Cookie
- Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole. Asshole
- In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for? Book
- He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson Arrange