All John Irving Quotes
- Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true. Care
- We are formed by what we desire Desire
- So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother… Best
- Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough. Big
- You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still… Happening
- A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy Absolutely
- It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly. Adults
- Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish… Book
- My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me! Boy
- Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies. Adult
- Being wrong about important things is exhausting. Exhausting
- My brain is sending poison to my heart. Brain
- You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else. Beginning
- She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance. Appearance
- It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived. Been
- Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule. Breaking
- People regard art too highly, and history not enough Art
- Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a… Death
- There's nothing as scary as the future. Funny
- Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die. Die
- And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the… Book
- Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us. Gender
- No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You… Baby
- Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who… Cancer
- but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive. Each