top of page
.png){kind=small}
"More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Life quotes
"I am very grateful for all the opportunities life has given me."
"My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life."
"The spirit of life, the spirit of peace."
"If have nothing but life, I have everything."
Explore more quotes by John Irving
"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."
"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."
"When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things."
"No 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."
"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
"I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write."
"There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly."
bottom of page