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
self nurse abortion
He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.
giving asking please
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
memories monsters doe
Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.
people want matter
When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?
people trying sound
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
people population majority
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
birthday sports writing
I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.
trying sound
It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.
disappointment successful people
Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.
men good-man needs
It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.
jobs memories writing
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
sound lessons imagine
This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.
two special half
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.
religious mean people
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean!