John Irving Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
John Irving quotes and sayings page 5 (82 year old novelist). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 78 we have for him.
“I don't really set out to explore grand themes. I set out to tell a story. And one I have to be able to imagine right through.”
“I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.”
“I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.”
“I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open.”
“The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.”
“There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.”
“I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.”
“Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.”
“When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.”
“I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.”
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