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John Irving quotes

American Novelist, Writer March 2, 1942

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John Irving quote: "don't worry - so what if there is no life after death? There..."
don't worry - so what if there is no life after death? There is life after Garp, believe me. John Irving
John Irving quote: "Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down..."
Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life! John Irving
John Irving quote: "Life is serious but art is fun!"
Life is serious but art is fun! John Irving
More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. John Irving
When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things. John Irving
John Irving quote: "the demands of writing and of real life are not always..."
...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar. John Irving
John Irving quote: "My life is a reading list."
My life is a reading list. John Irving
Homer Wells, listening to Big Dot Taft, felt like her voice – dulled. Wally was away, Candy was away, and the anatomy of a rabbit was, after Clara, no challenge; the migrants, whom he’d so eagerly anticipated, were just plain hard workers; life was just a job. He had grown up without noticing when? Was there nothing remarkable in the transition? John Irving
John Irving quote: "and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr...."
and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. John Irving
John Irving quote: "No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was..."
No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind. John Irving
John Irving quote: "Half my life is an act of revision."
Half my life is an act of revision. John Irving
John Irving quote: "Life is an X-rated soap opera."
Life is an X-rated soap opera. John Irving
...but I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar -- you live next to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace. My cousins were both small-towners and outsiders; they had not grown up with Own Meany, who was so strange to them that he inspired awe - yet they were no more likely to fall upon him, or to devise ways to torture him, than it was likely for a herd of cattle to attack a cat. John Irving
John Irving quote: "I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time -..."
I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were before I knew you. John Irving
Dr. Larch bent over him and kissed him, very lightly, on his lips. Homer heard Dr. Larch whisper, ‘Good work, Homer.’ He felt a second, even lighter kiss. ‘Good work, my boy,’ the doctor said, and then left him. Homer Wells felt his tears come silently; there were more tears than he remembered crying the last time he had cried – when Fuzzy Stone had died and Homer had lied about Fuzzy to Snowy Meadows and the others. He cried and cried, but he never made a sound; he would have to change... John Irving

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