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
being-ignored rivals ignored
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
mankind ifs
If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?
nice hands squeezing
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
adults orphan delirious
Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
naked firsts first-time
…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.
size dread gardener
The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
lovers
You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
exhausting seventeen knows
It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.
like-you enough adolescence
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.
wrestling tennis musical
Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
rhinos bird be-kind
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
presidential agendas blind
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
scary
There's nothing as scary as the future.
rumor care stories
Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.