John Irving Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside my face and to see your eyes open in the morning when I lie next to you—just watching you, waiting for you to wake up.

  John Irving

  Morning, Lying, Eye

• (Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

  John Irving

  Baseball, Games, Waiting

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

• Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.

  John Irving

  Waiting, Doe, Dramatic

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

• For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other novels waiting to be written next. And the decision driving which one of them it should be was never based on how long it had waited or how many accumulated pages of notes I had.

  John Irving

  Book, Writing, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

  John Irving

  Waiting, Patient

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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