John Irving Quotes

Flash is about freedom; Flash is about expression. Flash is about just the joy of exuberant running and of freedom, and the moment you weight him down with too much Batman-like baggage... that's not the Flash anymore.

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

I think the reason I've been able to keep making music is because I'm not married, I don't have kids.

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

Cut loose from the weight of prejudices, traditions, and customs.

By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.

I have a very easy life, I can wander around.

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.

The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.

To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost, I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.

Fortunately, or unforunately for me, I am always at my best when I am unhampered: when I can let myself go and have a little fun.

I've always been very much attracted to a character that's actually free.

It's nice to have the creative freedom to write about whatever and no longer feeling those restrictions I had when I was 15.

When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.

If you play without the shackles and burdens, then you play like you did when you were a kid.

I'd like to live permanently in October 1988, when I started college. I had no responsibility and the energy to do whatever I wanted. My optimism wasn't dented by experience or low self-esteem.