Author Profile
John Irving
1942 • American • Novelist
61
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 61 quotesWhatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.— John Irving
I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.— John Irving
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.— John Irving
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.— John Irving