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
small-changes half revision
Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.
abortion choices needs
Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you—because you know how to perform them—have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice—and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you.
tattoo men giving
You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.
running memorable thinking
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you
should-have decision finals
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
memories never-forget forget
And never forget, there is memory.
thinking awkward praying
I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.
want socialist ifs
If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.
dumb monkeys voters
THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
kids hands perfect
Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.
clothes heaven sells
Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven
loss childhood events
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.
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?
matter language findings
I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.