Quotes by : John Irving

As for Jenny, she felt only that women - just like men - should at least be able to make conscious decisions....

...where our desires "come from"; that is a dark, winding road.

In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate....

Your memory is a monster you forget - it doesn't.

Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal,....

Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute....

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when....

Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?

I still believe in you, as a writer, but the only stuff we ever had in common doesn't travel very far.""What....