Quotes by : John Irving

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again....

The object of war is to survive it.

...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings....

Six-Pack didn't despise George W. Bush to the degree that Ketchum did, but she thought the president....

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination....

Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments....

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part,....

The object of war is to survive it.