What did John Irving mean by: There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep. - John Irving Novelist Copy
+ My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Irving, Discipline, Motivation, Talent, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Irving, Liars, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ I do know where I’m going and it’s just a matter of finding the language to get there. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Irving, Findings, Language, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Irving, Imagine, Remember, Stories, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Irving, Revision, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ …there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Irving, First Time, Naked, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ You think you have a memory; but it has you! Feraz Zeid, July 18, 2023December 12, 2023, John Irving, Memories, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Irving, Perspective, Sight, 0 - John Irving Novelist
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children. - Michelangelo Artist · Italy
The only reason that they say, ‘Women and children first’ is to test the strength of the lifeboats. - Jean Kerr Playwright · USA
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age. - Wassily Kandinsky Painter · Russia
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
