John Irvingauthor profile |
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| born | March 02, 1942 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| gender | male | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Exeter, New Hampshire, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| genre | Literature & Fiction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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about this author
John Winslow Irving (born March 2, 1942 as John Wallace Blunt, Jr.) is a bestselling American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. |
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books by John Irvingcombine editionsavg rating: 3.87 | 64828 ratings | 31 distinct works
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quotes by John Irving
"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)
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""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 (My Movie Business: A Memoir)
— John Irving (My Movie Business: A Memoir)
"The thing that is most hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most wind up in parentheses."
— John Irving
— John Irving












