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
writing next novel
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
morning lying eye
The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside my face and to see your eyes open in the morning when I lie next to you—just watching you, waiting for you to wake up.
mom mother dark
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
character stories fans
I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
memorable thinking trying
In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
taken men important
It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had good reason to have done so. (...) She looked to be in such total possession of her life that only the most confident men could continue to look at her if she looked back at them. Even in bus stations, she was a woman who was stared at only until she looked back.
family nice food
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
fashion real term
So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.
thinking people busy
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
temper bad-temper activity
As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
being-ignored rivals ignored
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
years civilization perception
I 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 an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.
nervous not-afraid
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
children real world
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.