Quotes John Irving

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write t...

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and jus...

Good habits are worth being fanatical about....

Half my life is an act of revision....

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the endin...

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little t...

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be ...

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in t...

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriousl...

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with...

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the nov...

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you ...

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as ...

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who ...

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. H...

Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all...

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of i...

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real worl...

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly....

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware o...

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of br...

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping...

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I writ...

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

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basical...