“...there's a limit to enduring admiration being a substitute for love.” — John Irving Admiration Copy Share Image
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I'll bet every fucking one of your angels is going to be terrifying!” — John Irving Angel Copy Share Image
So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion. — John Irving Fashion Copy Share Image
“If you live long enough, Bill - it's a world of epilogues," Richard Abbott said.” — John Irving Epilogues Copy Share Image
Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the… — John Irving End of the day Copy Share Image
“There is no Purgatory-that's a catholic invention. There's life on earth, There's heaven-and there's hell” — John Irving Heaven Copy Share Image
“He might have told Homer, then, that he loved him very much and that he needed something very active to occupy himself… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems… — John Irving Books Copy Share Image
Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when… — John Irving Death Copy Share Image
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. — John Irving 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 Copy Share Image
No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation.… — John Irving Baby Copy Share Image
“She drew the line at television. It took no effort to watch – it was infinitely more beneficial to the soul, and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a… — John Irving Argument Copy Share Image
“it struck him as a brilliant accusation to make of anyone who was slightly (or hugely) different. It was the best rumor… — John Irving Accusation 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
If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked. "Seventeen, " I told her. "Seventeen!"… — John Irving Writers Copy Share Image
“Franny’s Hollywood name, her acting name, is one you know. This is our family’s story, and it’s inappropriate for me to use… — John Irving Family Copy Share Image
“Whoever acquired any real or substantive intelligence from reading newspapers? I'm sure I have no in-depth comprehension of American villany; yet I… — John Irving Ice cream Copy Share Image
“Novels were not arguments; a story worked, or it didn't, on its own merits. What did it matter if a detail was… — John Irving Books Copy Share Image
“He felt the pregnant woman squeeze his hand so hard that it hurt. The word ‘Mother!’ was strangely on his lips when… — John Irving Mother Copy Share Image
“who are always right, and are given to reminding us of it, are irritating; prophets are irritating, and Owen Meany is decidedly… — John Irving Best friend Copy Share Image
“he had seen his share of heroes, too. Major Rawls never knew everything that Owen had known; the major knew only that… — John Irving Owen Meany Copy Share Image
“It was not necessarily what Ketchum might have said about the war in Iraq, or the never-ending mess in the Middle East,… — John Irving Middle east Copy Share Image
The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and… — John Irving Book Copy Share Image
