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He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson (John Irving Quotes)
The lie, of course, is more interesting (John Irving Quotes)
If pride is a sin... moral pride is the greatest sin (John Irving Quotes)
We are formed by what we desire (John Irving Quotes)
Being wrong about important things is exhausting (John Irving Quotes)
My brain is sending poison to my heart (John Irving Quotes)
She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance (John Irving Quotes)
People regard art too highly, and history not enough (John Irving Quotes)
My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline (John Irving Quotes)
The object of war is to survive it (John Irving Quotes)
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly (John Irving Quotes)
You think you have a memory; but it has you! (John Irving Quotes)
When I feel like being a director, I write a novel (John Irving Quotes)
But good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive (John Irving Quotes)
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination (John Irving Quotes)
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else (John Irving Quotes)
A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy (John Irving Quotes)
Don’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true (John Irving Quotes)
And I find - I’m 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn’t diminished any. That’s the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone (John Irving Quotes)
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second (John Irving Quotes)
More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn’t say I have a talent that’s special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina (John Irving Quotes)
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him (John Irving Quotes)
When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things (John Irving Quotes)
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! (John Irving Quotes)
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough (John Irving Quotes)
I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother’s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany (John Irving Quotes)
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I’m going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life (John Irving Quotes)
Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We’re screwed down here-for life! (John Irving Quotes)
(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action (John Irving Quotes)
All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them - don’t put them down (John Irving Quotes)