If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
John IrvingSo we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someoneโs older brother and someoneโs older sister โ they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother โ and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them.
John IrvingIt doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
John IrvingAmbition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adultโin any wayโsomething in your childhood dies.
John Irving