What did John Irving mean by: We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds. - John Irving Novelist Copy
+ Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Irving, Hard Work, Wrestling, Writing, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ Self-hatred is worse than loneliness. Feraz Zeid, September 9, 2023December 24, 2023, John Irving, Hate, Loneliness, Self, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Irving, Adults, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Irving, Character, Interest, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. Feraz Zeid, September 26, 2023December 26, 2023, John Irving, Art, Hard Work, Serious, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Irving, Self, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ …there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Irving, Safety, Viruses, 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
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
