John Irving
John Winslow Irving (born March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (for The Cider House Rules, based on his novel of the same name).
10 Quotes
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
— John Irving
Half my life is an act of revision.
— John Irving
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
— John Irving
You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
— John Irving
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean—make sure they know what they mean!
— John Irving
The kind of people claiming to be in communication with God today … they are enough to drive a real Christian crazy!
— John Irving
Imagining something is better than remembering something.
— John Irving
But we are not known for our ability to follow through on our unearned discoveries. We are top-of-the-water adventurers, who limit our opinions of the icebergs to what we can see.
— John Irving
There’s no procrastination on TV.
— John Irving
Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summon them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
— John Irving