Famous Quotes / John Irving
11 Quotations by John Irving
- 1. Half my life is an act of revision.
- 2. If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
- 3. The object of war is to survive it.
- 4. The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you ...
- 5. There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
- 6. To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family ...
- 7. What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to ...
- 8. When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk t ...
- 9. Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The sto ...
- 10. You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
- 11. Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for ...