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  • John Irving Quote - but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
  • John Irving Quote - but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
  • John Irving Quote - but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
  • John Irving Quote - but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
  • John Irving Quote - but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
  • John Irving Quote - but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - A novel is a piece of architecture. It’s not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It’s a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work. Download This Image

    A novel is a piece of architecture. It’s not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It’s a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen. Download This Image

    The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous. Download This Image

    I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today. Download This Image

    What a phrase that is: ‘that explains everything!’ I know better than to think anything ‘explains everything’ today.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.

    The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.

    No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen…You shouldn’t have a baby if there’s no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met. Download This Image

    Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

    You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

    You’re nice,’ Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. ‘And you’re my oldest friend.’ But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves. Download This Image

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

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, “I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure.” It doesn’t bother me if people feel that way.

    I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, “I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure.” It doesn’t bother me if people feel that way.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - You 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.

    You 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 IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.

    You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.

    JOHN IRVING
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Irving Quote - Maybe 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.

    Maybe 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.

    JOHN IRVING