John Irving: Cytaty po angielsku

John Irving jest amerykański pisarz i scenarzysta filmowy. Cytaty po angielsku.

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“(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action”

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John Irving książka Modlitwa za Owena

Źródło: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”

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John Irving książka Świat według Garpa

Źródło: The World According to Garp

“If pride is a sin… moral pride is the greatest sin.”

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John Irving książka The Cider House Rules

Źródło: The Cider House Rules

“You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.”

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John Irving książka Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Źródło: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

“Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.”

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John Irving książka Hotel New Hampshire

Źródło: The Hotel New Hampshire

“Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.”

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John Irving książka Jednoroczna wdowa

Źródło: A Widow for One Year

“A reader told me recently, in London, said that 'well, I read that you write the last sentence first, so I always read your last sentence first.' And I said, 'oh, no, you're not supposed to do that.”

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“[On his process for writing novels:] I can't imagine what the first sentence is, I can't imagine where I want the reader to enter the story, if I don't know where the reader is going to leave the story. So once I know what the last thing the reader hears is, I can work my way backward, like following a roadmap in reverse.”

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A modern novelist of Dickensian tradition, Spotlight, Russia Today, January 24, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ost0Gyl2V1I,

“The kind of people claiming to be in communication with God today … they are enough to drive a real Christian crazy!”

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John Irving książka Modlitwa za Owena

A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

“He wrote Helen that "a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you."”

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John Irving książka Świat według Garpa

The World According to Garp (1978), ch. 5

“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either.”

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Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1988)

“Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student—and not a good one—and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved.”

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"John Irving Interviewed by Suzanne Herel." Mother Jones magazine, May/June 1997.

“I write repeatedly—against my will—of those things I fear most happening. Losing a loved one, losing a parent, losing a child. I'm in terror of losing a child. It's never happened to me, but I am clearly compelled to write about it over and over again, and in a way I think, psychologically at least, this says more about me autobiographically as a novelist than the fact that Danny Angel goes to the Iowa Writers Workshop and has Kurt Vonnegut as a teacher, which I also did.”

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The Best of The Sunday Edition, CBC.ca, CBC, Michael Enright, October 25, 2009, November 5, 2009 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/sundayedition_20091026_22073.mp3,

“(In reference to Vermont's Act 60): This is Marxism. It's leveling everything by decimating what works … It's that vindictive 'We've suffered, and now we're going to take money from your kid and watch you squirm'… There's a minority which is an open target in this country which no one protects, and that's rich people.”

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[Salon, News, July 1, 1998, http://www.salon.com/news/1998/07/01news.html]

“Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory.”

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John Irving książka Świat według Garpa

The World According to Garp, ch. 5

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

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Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1988)

“But we are not known for our ability to follow through on our unearned discoveries. We are top-of-the-water adventurers, who limit our opinions of the icebergs to what we can see.”

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A Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996)