The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.
JOHN IRVINGMaybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer’s irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading.
More John Irving Quotes
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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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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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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman’s freedom of choice, too.
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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.
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How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
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He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.
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If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don’t have one. But we are a country – USA – that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
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A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
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YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.
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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
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