John Irving Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

  John Irving

  Book, Reading, School

• Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don’t have to finish books you don’t like.

  John Irving

  Children, Book, Home

• When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

  John Irving

  Notebook, Writing, School

• With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

  John Irving

  Book, School, Shoes

• What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

  John Irving

  School, Study, Fascinated

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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