People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
John IrvingI write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
John IrvingHe was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
John IrvingHe had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.
John Irving