John Irving Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

• It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?

  John Irving

  Skills, People, Suffering

• ...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

  John Irving

  Study, Vengeance, Innocent

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

• What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

  John Irving

  School, Study, Fascinated

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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