What did John Irving mean by: Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently. John Irving Novelist Copy
+ Imagining something is better than remembering something. Author, August 28, 2023January 2, 2025, John Irving, Imagination, Memory, Perception, 0 John Irving Novelist
My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me! Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Irving, Labeling, Stereotyping, Understanding, 0 John Irving Novelist
+ If pride is a sin … moral pride is the greatest sin. Author, October 26, 2023January 2, 2025, John Irving, Morality, Pride, Sin, 0 John Irving Novelist
A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Irving, Imagination, Personalization, 0 John Irving Novelist
+ wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading. Author, September 8, 2023January 2, 2025, John Irving, Distraction, Reading, Technology, 0 John Irving Novelist
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Irving, Communication, Expression, Mental health, 0 John Irving Novelist
The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Irving, Denial, Perception, Reality., 0 John Irving Novelist
+ Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Irving, Imagination, Memory, Storytelling, 0 John Irving Novelist
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
