Frases de John Irving (109 citas, página 4)

The World According to Garp
Variante: Y naturalmente, para ser justos, lo mejor de las ellenjamesianas había consistido en dar a conocer el pavor general que tan burtalmente amenazaba a mujeres y niñas. Para muchas ellenjamesianas, la imitación del horrible deslenguamiento no había sido "enteramente político". Había sido una identificación muy personal. Por supuesto, en algunos casos las ellenjamesianas eran mujeres que también habían sido violadas y lo que querían decir era que se sentían como si les faltara la lengua. En un mundo de hombres, sentían que las habían reducido al silencio para siempre.

“Escribió que la peor razón para que algo ocurriera en una novela era que hubiera ocurrido realmente. “¡Todo ha ocurrido realmente, alguna vez!”, rabiaba. “La única razón para que algo ocurra es que es perfecto que ocurra en ese momento”.
-Dime cualquier cosa que te haya ocurrido a ti- dijo en cierta ocasión a una entrevistadora- y yo lo mejoraré. Puedo mostrar los detalles mejor que como ocurrieron.”

John Irving libro El mundo según Garp

The World According to Garp

“¿No estoy aquí, que soy tu madre?”

John Irving libro Avenue of Mysteries

Avenue of Mysteries

“¡Pinche pendejo chimuelo!”

John Irving libro Avenue of Mysteries

Avenue of Mysteries

John Irving: Frases en inglés

“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.”

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Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1988)

“Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student—and not a good one—and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved.”

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"John Irving Interviewed by Suzanne Herel." Mother Jones magazine, May/June 1997.

“I write repeatedly—against my will—of those things I fear most happening. Losing a loved one, losing a parent, losing a child. I'm in terror of losing a child. It's never happened to me, but I am clearly compelled to write about it over and over again, and in a way I think, psychologically at least, this says more about me autobiographically as a novelist than the fact that Danny Angel goes to the Iowa Writers Workshop and has Kurt Vonnegut as a teacher, which I also did.”

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The Best of The Sunday Edition, CBC.ca, CBC, Michael Enright, October 25, 2009, November 5, 2009 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/sundayedition_20091026_22073.mp3,

“(In reference to Vermont's Act 60): This is Marxism. It's leveling everything by decimating what works … It's that vindictive 'We've suffered, and now we're going to take money from your kid and watch you squirm'… There's a minority which is an open target in this country which no one protects, and that's rich people.”

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[Salon, News, July 1, 1998, http://www.salon.com/news/1998/07/01news.html]

“Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory.”

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John Irving libro El mundo según Garp

The World According to Garp, ch. 5

“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.”

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John Irving

Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1988)