Home / Quotes / Quote by John Irving

Quote by John Irving

“I have lots of notebooks around, because one great advantage of writing by hand-in addition to how much it slows you down-is that it makes me write at the speed that I feel I should be composing, rather than faster than I can think, which is what happens to me on any keyboard.”

Quote by John Irving

Author

John Irving is an American novelist known for his intricate narrative structures and profound character development. His works often explore themes of family, love, morality, and identity, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

You May Also Like

“Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.”

Ifs Knows Wells Persons Bigs Desire Fighting Quality Surface Likes Sparks Dislike Superficial Stereotype

Author:Dorothy West

“None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.”

Knows Want Made Bigs Care Film Turns Deals Half Millions Risk Cost Waste Twenties Dollars Profit Budgets Thirty Million Dollars No One Cares

Author:Clint Eastwood

“I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.”

Thinking Knows Feels Humans Persons Lying Artist Like You Truthful Human Experience Better Person Being Truthful Living A Lie

Author:Diane Guerrero

“I wake up with new dreams every day...more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me.”

I Can Dream Can Do Wake Up

Author:Dolly Parton

“It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Steps Human Nature Strange Like You Negative Can't Change Step Up

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.”

People Culture Courses Mankind Taught College Great Work Introduction Anthropology

Author:Laurie Colwin

“People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.”

People Way Humans Human Beings Nice Built Appearance Contradiction Paradox Being Nice Smooth Polite Nice People

Author:Vincent Cassel

“Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.”

World Needs Writing Ends Self Form Path Concerned Connections Response Mysterious Supposed To Be Breathing Interiors Veins Bleeding Preoccupation Uncontrollable True Things

Author:Andrea Barrett

“In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in the evolution of feelings, which takes place by means of art. Lower feelings-less kind and less needed for the good of humanity-are forced out and replaced by kinder feelings which better serve us individually and collectively. This is the purpose of art.”

Kind Mean Art Feelings Purpose Humanity Belief Evolution Needed Replaced Unnecessary Mistaken Kinder Purpose Of Art

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I am not and should not be considered an economist.”

Should Economist

Author:Sylvia Porter