Quotes by John Irving
“I don't believe in God. I do believe in His saints. They're good for us, they're people to read about.”— John Irving
“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”— John Irving
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or it hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”— John Irving
“If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of failing, then you're not trying to accomplish anything specific.”— John Irving
“When you love someone, you have to be careful with it, you might never get it again.”— John Irving
“Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.”— John Irving
“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”— John Irving
“A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.”— John Irving