Best quotes by John Irving on Life

Checkout quotes by John Irving on Life

• ‟ If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

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• ‟ Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.

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• ‟ Half my life is an act of revision.

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• ‟ Half my life is an act of revision.

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• ‟ I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.

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• ‟ If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

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• ‟ 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.

  - John Irving