I always felt that I had a mission in life. I thought I was born to play sports. Even now, I still feel that must have been my mission because I came... →
Monte Irvin
I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and... →
Robert Irvine
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
John Irving
Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick 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... →
More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes... →
Half my life is an act of revision.
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense... →
I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer.... →
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... →