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
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.
kids responsibility parent
It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.
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.
memories thinking monsters
Your memory is a monster; it summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you.
beautiful kids men
Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
people abortion
If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.
book reading school
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?