Famous John Irving Quotes

  • I’ll bet every ????ing one of your angels is going to be terrifying! – John Irving

    I’ll bet every ????ing one of your angels is going to be terrifying!– John Irving

  • Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he’d heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound – that’s what he’d heard. – John Irving

    Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he’d heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound – that’s what he’d heard.– John Irving

  • …the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar. – John Irving

    …the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.– John Irving

  • …the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.– John Irving

  • …nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something. – John Irving

    …nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.– John Irving

  • And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone. – John Irving

    And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.– John Irving

  • A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning. – John Irving

    A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.– John Irving

  • Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you-they can’t turn you away. – John Irving

    Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you-they can’t turn you away.– John Irving

  • They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. – John Irving

    They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.– John Irving

  • If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. – John Irving

    If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.– John Irving