John Irving

Irving, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Door in the Floor

  2004, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Frame on the Wall: The Making of 'The Door in the Floor'

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 72nd Annual Academy Awards

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself - Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay
• Play in Full Screen The Cider House Rules

  1999, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Cider House Rules

  1999, role: actor , character name: Stationmaster
• Play in Full Screen The Cider House Rules: The Making of an American Classic

  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Cider House Rules

  1999, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Simon Birch

  1998, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Do Not Enter: The Visa War Against Ideas

  1987, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Hotel New Hampshire

  1984, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The World According to Garp

  1982, role: actor , character name: Referee
• Play in Full Screen The World According to Garp

  1982, role: writer

Irving, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Man Before Adam

  1960, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Virtuoso

  1959, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Cornish Pilchard Drifters

  1959, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Virtuoso

  1959, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Cornish Pilchard Drifters

  1959, role: director
• Play in Full Screen My Guess Would Be Murder

  1957, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen My Guess Would Be Murder

  1957, role: director
• Play in Full Screen My Guess Would Be Murder

  1957, role: writer

Irving, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Inherit the Wind

  1965, role: actor , character name: Reporter
• Play in Full Screen Pygmalion

  1963, role: actor , character name: Freddy Eynsford-Hill
• Play in Full Screen Diane

  1956, role: actor , character name: Gentleman
• Play in Full Screen Gaby

  1956, role: actor , character name: Aviator
• Play in Full Screen The Court Jester

  1955, role: actor , character name: Gate House Guard

Famous quotes by John Irving:

"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

"Keep passing the open windows."

"Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."

"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."

"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."

"Half my life is an act of revision."

"You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed."

"We invent what we love, and what we fear"

"Oh FUCK the longings and agonies of youth."

"Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!"

"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."

"If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life."

"I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story."

"I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand."

"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you."

"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."

"My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons."

"I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey."

"There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly."

"I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions."

John Irving

John Irving