Famous Quotes

"The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of."

John Irving on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

• "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

  Winston Churchill on Architecture

• "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

  Jim Rohn on Architecture

• "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

  Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

More quotes by John Irving

• "I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write."

• "And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone."

• "I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."

• "If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."

• "I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography."