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
life courage love-you
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
perseverance window passing
Keep passing the open windows.
growth ends grows
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
littles
Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.
strong missing want
Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?
years four negotiation
…there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old…
father grandmother world
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
father grandmother world
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
country thinking hopeful
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.
father firsts bears
The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.
character effort world
The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.
teenager adults resentment
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.