black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

John Irving

Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don’t mean that you can’t also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.
JOHN IRVING

Fun Hurt Mean Stories
I’m not a movie person. They’re collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
JOHN IRVING

Collaboration Compromise Heart
I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.
JOHN IRVING

Nervous Not Afraid People
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin – only four years older than I am – everything, or what little I could discover about him.
JOHN IRVING

Cousin Father Years
They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
JOHN IRVING

Kind Thinking Together
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
JOHN IRVING

Country Hopeful Thinking
I don’t begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.
JOHN IRVING

Finals Knowing Usually Voice
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
JOHN IRVING

Mean People Suicide
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
JOHN IRVING

Bears Practice Promise
No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
JOHN IRVING

Chiefly Lived Mind Mine
There’s nothing as scary as the future.
JOHN IRVING

Future Nothing Scary
There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
JOHN IRVING

Aware Constantly Reason
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
JOHN IRVING

Dying Finding Student Yourself
It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
JOHN IRVING

Faults Meany Owen Responsibility
Keep passing the open windows.
JOHN IRVING

Depression Encouraging Life
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
JOHN IRVING

Believe Children Church

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Irving Quotes