John Irving
American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter
Lived from: 1942 -
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 2 march 1942
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A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
Source: The World According To Garp (2012)― John Irving -
And never forget, there is memory.
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Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
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Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Half my life is an act of revision.
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I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.
Source: A prayer for Owen Meany (1989)― John Irving -
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
Source: The World According To Garp (2012) 605― John Irving -
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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Imagining something is better than remembering something.
Source: The World According To Garp (2012)― John Irving -
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
Source: The World According To Garp (2012) 19― John Irving -
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
Source: The Hotel New Hampshire (1986)― John Irving -
It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.
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Keep passing the open windows.
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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.
Source: The World According To Garp (2012)― John Irving -
Life is serious but art is fun!
Source: The Hotel New Hampshire (1986)― John Irving -
Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.
Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 248― John Irving -
My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!
Source: In One Person (2012) 189― John Irving -
Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.
Source: In One Person (2012) 260― John Irving
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