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
umpires surfing novelists
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
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My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!
desire
We are formed by what we desire
generosity habit good-habits
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
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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.
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The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.