John Irving: Making

John Irving is American novelist and screenwriter. Explore interesting quotes on making.
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“Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean—make sure they know what they mean!”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

“To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.”

John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire

The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), ch. 6

“If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?”

John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.”

John Irving book A Widow for One Year

Source: A Widow for One Year

“The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.”

John Irving