Quotes by John Irving

John Irving

John Irving

American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter

Lived from: 1942 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 2 march 1942

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  • Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven.
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  • 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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  • The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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  • The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
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  • There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
    The World According To Garp (2012)
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  • There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments.
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  • There's nothing as scary as the future.
    A prayer for Owen Meany (1989) 209
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  • Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!
    A prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
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  • We are formed by what we desire.
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  • We invent what we love and what we fear.
    A prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
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  • We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
    Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 340
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  • We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.
    Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 330
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  • Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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  • You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
    In One Person (2012) 116
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  • You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
    The World According To Garp (2012)
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  • You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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