Said Quote by John Irving

“THERE'S NO NEED TO BE CRUDE,' said Owen Meany.”

— John Irving

Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their…

— John Irving

“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen Meany] said…

— John Irving

“That’s bollocks,’ said Owen’s voice over the loudspeakers. ‘That a medical term?’ asked Jack. ‘It is when I use it.”

— Trevor Baxendale

“The passenger door popped open, and Owen peered inside. ‘Going my way?’ he asked with more than a hint of sarcasm. The interior was…

— Trevor Baxendale

“will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes—toward…

— John Irving

“who are always right, and are given to reminding us of it, are irritating; prophets are irritating, and Owen Meany is decidedly a prophet.…

— John Irving

“he had seen his share of heroes, too. Major Rawls never knew everything that Owen had known; the major knew only that Owen had…

— John Irving

It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made…

— John Irving

“But the penultimate paragraph of the novel is naturally the passage I wrote first. “When we held Owen Meany above our heads, when we…

— John Irving

“while we waited to see what God would do. I heard a tear fall—it was one of my grandmother’s tears, and I heard it…

— John Irving

“Of course I knew then where Hester had hidden Owen Meany; he’d been under the couch cushions—and under her!—all the while we were searching.…

— John Irving