John Irving
John Irving
John Winslow Irving is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 March 1942
CountryUnited States of America
scary
There's nothing as scary as the future.
matter gender whole
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
loneliness self hatred
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
zoos kids littles
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.
rumor care stories
Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.
important important-things exhausting
Being wrong about important things is exhausting.
ambition childhood want
Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.
baseball games waiting
(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
pride moral sin
If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.
remember said let-me
YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
judging tolerance superiors
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.
live-your-life stills overview
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.
teenager adults resentment
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
jobs writing giving
It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."