It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
JOHN IRVINGIt is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
JOHN IRVINGMy life is a reading list.
JOHN IRVINGThey were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
JOHN IRVINGNo one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
JOHN IRVINGNo 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 IRVINGWatch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean – make sure they know what they mean!
JOHN IRVINGWhen you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
JOHN IRVINGYou can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
JOHN IRVINGMy brain is sending poison to my heart.
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 IRVINGI 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.
JOHN IRVINGIt’s not right to hurt or deceive someone who’s already been hurt and deceived.
JOHN IRVINGSelf-hatred is worse than loneliness.
JOHN IRVINGIn this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.
JOHN IRVINGPeople only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
JOHN IRVINGI write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
JOHN IRVING