John Irving Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.

  John Irving

  Memories, Book, Tears

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

• When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

  John Irving

  Mean, Past, People

• I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

  John Irving

  Matter, Language, Findings

  "Novelist John Irving Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 14, 2012.

• The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and what the language is; not just the last sentence, but enough of the sentences surrounding that last sentence to know what the tone of voice is. I imagined it as something almost musical. Then you are writing toward something; you know the sound of your voice at the end of the story. That's how you want to sound in those final sentences: the degree that it is uplifting or not, the degree that it is melancholic or not.

  John Irving

  Uplifting, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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