I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
JOHN IRVINGI’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
JOHN IRVINGDon’t forget this, too: Rumors aren’t interested in the unsensational story; rumors don’t care what’s true.
JOHN IRVINGI certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
JOHN IRVINGHe also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
JOHN IRVINGIf pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin.
JOHN IRVINGA writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
JOHN IRVINGMy brain is sending poison to my heart.
JOHN IRVINGI always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
JOHN IRVINGThe building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
JOHN IRVINGEverybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
JOHN IRVINGYou can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
JOHN IRVINGYou can’t say you’re going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We – Americans – permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.
JOHN IRVINGKids 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.
JOHN IRVINGBeing reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.
JOHN IRVINGWhat a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.
JOHN IRVINGWhat is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
JOHN IRVING