Quotes by : John Irving

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they....

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it,....

It’s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them,....

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

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation....

Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you,....

The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe....

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories....

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

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.