It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound. - John Irving
""
It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.
English
Collect this quote
About
John Irving
John Winslow Irving (born 2 March 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (for The Cider House Rules, based on his novel of the same name).
Biography information from
Wikiquote·
Portrait adapted from
Wikimedia Commons, Dr. Jost Hindersmann Krimidoedel (CC BY)
Also Known As
Birth Name:
John Wallace Blunt
Alternative Names:
John Winslow Irving
•
John Wallace Blunt, Jr.
"Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food. What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the news — the issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of a cheeseburger with everything on it; but for the duration of my interest in it, all my other interests are consumed by it, and whatever appetites and capacities I may have had for detachment and reflection are suddenly subordinate to this cheeseburger in my life! I offer this as self-criticism; but what it means to be "political" is that you welcome these obsessions with cheeseburgers — at great cost to the rest of your life."
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
Limited Time Offer
Premium members can get their quote collection automatically imported into their Quotewise collections.
"Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer." “If you don’t believe in Easter,” Owen Meany said. “Don’t kid yourself — Don’t call yourself a Christian.
