John Irving
John Irving
John Winslow Irving is an American and Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.
"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 summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!"
John Irving"Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory."
John Irving"He wrote Helen that "a part of adolescence is feeling that theres no one else around you whos enough like yourself to understand you.""
John Irving"Imagining something is better than remembering something."
John Irving"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."
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"You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed."
John Irving"In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."
John Irving"Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual."
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"You cant learn everything you need to know legally."
John Irving
