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
forming groups members ourselves people watch
I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.
attracted establish guess headlines instantly lives might people sympathy
It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.
five lived people
I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open.
novels people physical
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.
character giving people
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
mean past people
When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language
people littles gifted
He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.
suicide mean people
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
lying wife people
What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid; they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress- lie to the people and violate the people's constitution!
people answers ready
People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
skills people suffering
It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?
thinking people dumb
You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.
love wind people
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
thinking people busy
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.