John Irving Quotes

'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.

John Irving

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GreatMeExpectationsWishImportant

Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.

Ameen Rihani

SpiritualStrongWeakRuleOppressed

The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.

Steven Spielberg

GratitudeParentsBabyGeneration

I don't make friends easily.

Shilpa Shinde

FriendsMakeEasily

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

Mo Yan

I AmProudLiteratureImportant

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron

MedicineLaughYouCheapAlways

This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.

Josh Hamilton

LifeFeelEnoughYouSometimesMail

I overthink everything, and one thing I find difficult is to actually be in the moment.

Jorja Smith

MomentFindDifficultEverything

I have great emotion every time I go on stage. Nothing in life gives me the same satisfaction that my profession gives me.

Jose Carreras

LifeGreatTimeMeSatisfactionGo

As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.

Don Yaeger

TennisRoomTrophiesCourtSomeWon

I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.

Doreen Cronin

TeacherMeWritingShyFabulousKid

A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.

Dawn Steel

TimeLearnYouLessonHardMost

I'm always trying to do things better than I've done them before, do them faster than I've done them before.

Bozoma Saint John

BetterTryingDoneAlwaysThings

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