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 IRVINGYou’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 IRVINGLife is serious but art is fun!
JOHN IRVINGbut writers, Garp knew, were just observers – good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
JOHN IRVINGBut I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
JOHN IRVINGThere’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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 IRVINGWriting a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
JOHN IRVINGYOU 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.
JOHN IRVINGIf we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
JOHN IRVINGWhereas 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 IRVINGNo one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
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 IRVINGThe excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.
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 IRVINGThey were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
JOHN IRVINGLife is an X-rated soap opera.
JOHN IRVING