Quotes About Irving

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

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts.

I myself have accepted the term [neoconservative], perhaps, because, having been named Irving, I am relatively indifferent to baptismal caprice.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

I'll bet every fucking one of your angels is going to be terrifying!

Real life is too sloppy a model for good fiction," Juan Diego had said.

As Em would one day act out for me, pantomimists are always misquoted.

It was as if all the books in her room had been feeding on her, had consumed – not nourished – her.

A what?" said Egg. No doubt he thought that an inferiority complex was a weapon; sometimes, I guess, it is.

Both,' Garp wrote, 'were of the opinion that the practice of law was vulgar, but the study of it was sublime.' They

In a novel, your foremost objective isn't to offend no one," the

I later found a bookstore on the Calle de Gravina—Libros, I believe it was called. (I'm not kidding, a bookstore called "Books.")

I could find him every noon, sitting on a bench in the Rathaus Park with a small, fat bag of hothouse radishes in his lap and a bottle of beer in one hand.

It would always amaze me, how Frank could make pure idiocy sound logical.

Sure, I know them. You can't exactly get lost in Winnipeg.

As could be seen by the fate of the man who could only walk on his hands, Garp had a thing about escalators.

They're past one watering hole, Kettle of Fish, and close to the Stonewall Inn, when a bus comes to a stop near the Waverly Place Station

with his own very male instincts, which were otherwise

Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.