John Irving Quotes
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![Good habits are worth being fanatical about. - John Irving quote.](/img/q/97/7597A-good-habits-are-worth-being-fanatical-about-john-irving.png)
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
![An underdog is in a position to take a healthy bite. - John Irving quote.](/img/q/37/41437A-an-underdog-is-in-a-position-take-healthy-bite-john-irving.png)
An underdog is in a position to take a healthy bite.
![When however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is going to be trouble. - John Irving quote.](/img/q/62/33962A-when-however-small-a-measure-of-jealousy-is-mixed-with-john-irving.png)
When however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is going to be trouble.
![To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. - John Irving quote.](/img/q/22/23022A-to-each-other-we-were-as-normal-nice-as-smell-john-irving.png)
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
![A writer is a vehicle. I feel the story I am writing existed before I existed; I'm just the slob who finds it, and rather clumsily tries to do it, and the characters, justice. - John Irving quote.](/img/q/09/42609A-a-writer-is-a-vehicle-i-feel-story-i-am-john-irving.png)
A writer is a vehicle. I feel the story I am writing existed before I existed; I'm just the slob who finds it, and rather clumsily tries to do it, and the characters, justice.
![Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us. - John Irving quote.](/img/q/16/31416A-religious-freedom-should-work-two-ways-we-should-be-free-john-irving.png)
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.
![Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! - John Irving quote.](/img/q/24/35724A-your-memory-is-a-monster-you-forget-it-doesnt-it-john-irving.png)
Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
![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. They made simply awful sense out of his intuitions. - John Irving quote.](/img/q/72/38272A-sigmund-freud-was-a-novelist-with-scientific-background-he-just-john-irving.png)
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. They made simply awful sense out of his intuitions.