John Irving Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy A Prayer for Owen Meany

2. Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true. In One Person

3. Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole. Last Night in Twisted River

4. In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases The World According to Garp

5. In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me The World According to Garp

6. It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans. The Cider House Rules

7. You can't learn everything you need to know legally. A Widow for One Year

8. You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. The Hotel New Hampshire

9. Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives. A Prayer for Owen Meany

10. Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either."(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)

11. The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences. In One Person