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
desire
We are formed by what we desire
generosity habit good-habits
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
coward looks appearance
Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
life writing half
Half my life is an act of revision.
christian mother believe
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.
world cases terminal
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
community good-man manners
I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.
world doe this-world
The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.
reading lists life-is
My life is a reading list.
art writing wrestling
I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why? Because wrestling requires even more dedication than writing because wrestling represents the most difficult and rewarding objective that I have ever dedicated myself to; because wrestling and wrestling coaches are among the most disciplined and self-sacrificing people I have ever known.
If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one.
way taxes owen-meany
The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
religious practice two
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.
liars men said
All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.